Who I work with
Adoption and family building
Adoption is usually described in the language of arrival: the homecoming, the announcement, the child in your arms. The years before that are quieter. Home studies, profiles, waiting with no end date, and a matching process that asks you to be chosen.
I am an adoptive parent, so I know that road from the inside — both the hope that makes the waiting bearable and the uncertainty that makes it exhausting. I also work with adoptees and with birth families, where the questions are different and just as real.
What we work on
- Waiting that stretches far longer than anyone prepared you for
- The whiplash of a match that falls through
- Openness agreements and relationships with birth family
- Talking with your child about their story, at each age
- Identity and belonging questions as an adoptee
- Deciding whether to pursue adoption at all, and what kind
How I work with this
There is no script for this. Some sessions are about surviving the waiting; others are about what it means to be a parent, or a person who was adopted, in a culture with strong opinions about both.
We move at the pace the process sets. When a match arrives and everything speeds up, sessions can too. When the file sits untouched for months, that is worth having somewhere to put.
For parents, part of the work is preparing for the conversations ahead — how to talk about origin, openness and hard history in a way a child can grow into rather than be protected from.
Sessions are held by secure video for clients anywhere in Colorado, Arizona, Maine, Minnesota and Idaho.
Questions about adoption and family building
Other areas I work with
A free 15-minute call is the easiest way to start.
Tell me a little about what is going on. I will reply within one business day and we can work out whether this is the right fit.
