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Posts Tagged ‘adoption-competent’

Dance / Movement Therapy and Adoption-Competent Therapy

By Madison Janke, LMHC, R-DMT | December 19, 2023
Dance movement therapy

Traumatic experiences leave a profound impact on our physical bodies. Sometimes those implicit memories or deeply buried traumas are inaccessible to verbal processing, and only accessed through body-focused and somatic-focused work. Here’s how Dance/Movement Therapy and Adoption-Competent Therapy intersect very effectively.

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Adoption-Competent Therapy — What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Find It

By Brittany Purrington | June 23, 2022
adoption competent therapy

Adoption-competent therapists have a trauma lens and understand that our body has memory through our senses even before we had verbal language.

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Adoption In the Media: The Unseen, Unrecognized Struggle of JuJu in “The Chair” TV Series

By Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC | September 15, 2021
adoption in The Chair

As an adult adoptee, Marta watched the Netflix series “The Chair” through the eyes of JuJu, the lead’s daughter. “My heart felt rage, grief and deep isolation. I see a child so completely alone in her trauma and loss that she has had to abandon her own narrative.

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