Services

  • Transracial adoption brings distinct issues of identity, belonging, visibility, and loss. When family race and culture differ, questions arise about heritage, loyalty, cultural connection, and self-definition.

    I work with adoptees, adoptive parents, and families on these complexities.

    For adoptees, therapy supports exploration of:

    • Racial and cultural identity

    • Marginalization or racial stress

    • Grief, ambiguity, or divided belonging

    • Attachment wounds and relational challenges

    • Weaving multiple cultural narratives into a cohesive self

    For adoptive parents, I help with:

    • Raising children with racial awareness and cultural humility

    • Talking about adoption and race

    • Recognizing identity development across life stages

    • Responding to racism or bias

    • Strengthening family communication and connection

    My approach is trauma-informed, relational, and attentive to systemic and historical forces shaping adoption. Therapy holds complexity with compassion, honoring both love and loss.

  • Grief touches every part of life—death, anticipatory grief, miscarriage or pregnancy loss, divorce, chronic illness, or other major changes.

    As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker certified in Thanatology (the study of death, dying, and bereavement), I provide compassionate, specialized support for emotional, relational, psychological, and spiritual effects of grief.

    Grief isn’t something to “get over.” In a safe, nonjudgmental, trauma-informed space, you can express feelings, process complex emotions, and find meaning at your own pace. I offer warm, collaborative support to honor loss and strengthen resilience.

  • Living across cultures can be enriching — and disorienting. Expats, globally mobile professionals, and third culture individuals often navigate profound transitions that impact identity, relationships, and sense of home.

    You may be experiencing:

    • Cultural displacement or isolation

    • Identity shifts after relocation

    • Grief around leaving communities behind

    • Challenges with repatriation

    • Questions like “Where do I belong?” or “What is home?”

    • Strain in partnerships or family systems due to mobility

    I help people who live between cultures explore how cross-cultural experiences shape identity, relationships, and emotional well-being. Therapy provides space to process transitions, build resilience, and maintain inner continuity amid external change.

    I use a culturally aware approach that considers how social and political forces shape migration, race, and belonging, helping you feel grounded and connected whether you’re adapting to a new country or a global lifestyle.

  • Life can feel overwhelming. I offer a warm, supportive space to discuss transitions, stress, anxiety, or depression. Together we’ll clarify your experiences and develop practical coping strategies to ease symptoms, build resilience, and help you move forward with greater balance and confidence.

Psychotherapy:

  • Adoption is a meaningful, lifelong journey with hope, joy, and complex decisions. With 25+ years in adoption work and a Post-Masters Certificate in Adoption Counseling, I offer compassionate, expert consultation for every stage.

    As an adoptee, I bring clinical and lived insight into adoption’s relational and identity dynamics.

    Services:

    • Pre-Adoption: Clarify expectations, motivations, openness, and emotional readiness.

    • Home Study Prep: Guidance to feel informed and confident.

    • Open Adoption Planning: Create contact agreements, boundaries, and healthy birth-family relationships.

    • Birth Parent Support: Nonjudgmental help exploring options and emotions.

    • Post-Adoption & Parenting: Attachment, identity, trauma-informed and special-needs parenting, and transitions.

    • Adoptee Consultation (children, teens, adults): Identity, race/heritage, search/reunion, life transitions, and complex feelings.

    My approach is trauma-informed, strengths-based, and empathetic. Whether beginning adoption or seeking support years later, I provide a safe space for clarity, reassurance, and guidance. You don’t have to navigate this alone.

  • Clinical supervision for pre-licensure social workers pursuing licensure. I provide collaborative, reflective guidance centered on clinical skills and ethics.

    I offer a safe, affirming space to strengthen clinical skills, diagnosis and treatment planning, and professional confidence.

    I practice culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and strengths-based care, and I promote critical thinking, self-awareness, and ongoing learning while following state rules and ethics.

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If you’re ready to take the next step in your healing journey, I’d love to connect with you. Together, we can create a path forward that feels authentic and empowering.