ADOPTION

Are you considering adoption as a way to have children?

Are you adopted?

Adoption can be wonderful, unlike how the media has portrayed it over the years.

Are you wanting to feel loved but feel alone, discouraged, rejected, exhausted, guilty, sad or hopeless?

Or, maybe things are going okay, but you just need to talk to someone who can identify with your journey a little more than most.

As an adoption coach, I can help navigate the different concerns, worries and stresses that naturally accompany adoption.

I was adopted when I was 5 weeks old. Having first-hand experience with what a child goes through while trying to figure out his or her place in society (and home) has afforded me years of problem-solving experience.

I know how to help adoptive parents process their anxiety, stress, and answering questions from their children and from those outside the home.

Adoptive Parents need to be able to comfortably and confidently answer the questions that come up during the different phases in the adopted child's life.

Every adoption situation is different and an adoption coach who's experienced with working with parents and children is what is necessary. No one can know truly what it's like unless you have been in the situation.

Adoption coaching offers assistance for the parents, children, siblings, and anyone considering adoption (or foster care).

Adoptive parents and their adopted children face challenges that most others not in a blended family cannot understand. This also includes any siblings that live with the family. For some blended families, to feel connected, they need to have an adoption coach who's been there who understands what it is to be adopted into a family, what the kids are going through and what children hope for in an adoptive parent.

A joy of mine is to help my fellow adoptees find beauty in their situation and feel peace.

I know how to help adoptive parents process the different concerns, anxieties, stresses, and questions that come from their children's curiosity or fear and from those outside the home. Adoption coaching offers guidance with processing the sensitive and very important aspects.

Every adoption situation is different and an adoption coach who's experienced with working with parents and children is what is necessary. No one can truly understand the challenges adoptive parents and their children face unless they have lived within that dynamic. Adoption coaches help to navigate the complexities that naturally accompany adoption, so the family unit and love desired can be experienced by all involved.

Children who are adopted have different phases of development just like a child who is not adopted. However, the naturally complex phases may be compounded by adoption. When an adopted child is young, he (or she) may make up a story about what he believes/hopes has happened, in order to cope and/or comfort himself about his adoption. When they're teenagers the pressures and hormones teens go through is only part of growing up. Adoption adds another area, entirely, that requires attention. Emotional stresses of adoption can be felt through adulthood and negatively affect relationships for the rest of their lives.

Adoption coaching offers assistance for the:

Potential Adoptive Parents when considering adoption - is it right for you? It's necessary to clarify reasons and emotions before adopting.
Adoptive Parents needing support (like in a support group), to address their own fears about the birth parents or the child's natural curiosity about his or her birth parents.
Children who are adopted go through different phases of wondering, and questioning, and trying to figure things out... when they're young, when they're teenagers, when they're young adults and even as older mature adults.
Children who are not adopted needing support as the sibling, whether older or younger than the adopted sibling.

Adoption is a blessing and also, not for everyone.

Let's talk about it and see what's right for you and your family.

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