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

By Brittany Purrington | June 23, 2022

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

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

By Marta Isabella Sierra, LMHC | September 15, 2021

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.