Adoption is a powerful and life-changing experience, filled with both joy and complexity. Whether you’re a birth parent, adoptive parent, or adoptee, you may face unique emotional challenges and questions along the way. At The Summit Counseling Center, our therapists provide a compassionate, understanding space to help you process your experiences and strengthen the connections in your life.
Is Adoption Part of Your Story?
Adoption counseling may be helpful if you:
- Are exploring adoption as a birth parent or adoptive parent
- Feel grief, loss, confusion, or guilt related to adoption
- Want help navigating attachment, identity, or family dynamics
- Are an adoptee processing your experience or seeking a deeper sense of self
- Struggle with openness, boundaries, or communication within your family
- Want support in parenting an adopted child with trauma or emotional needs
Our Approach
We understand that every adoption journey is different — and deeply personal. Our therapists provide individualized care that is sensitive to the emotional, developmental, and relational aspects of adoption. Depending on your needs, we may use:
Types of Therapy
- Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Adlerian Therapy
- Art Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Christian Counseling
- Cognitive Behavior (CBT)
- Compassion Focused
- Couples Counseling
- Creative & Expressive Art
- Culturally Sensitive
- Dance Movement Therapy
- Existential
- Experiential
- Expressive Arts
- Family Systems
- Family Therapy
- Gestalt
- Humanistic Therapy
- Integrative Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Multicultural Therapy
- Music Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Person-Centered Therapy
- Positive Psychology
- Psychoanalytic Therapy
- Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
- Reality Therapy
- Relational Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic Therapy
- Strength-Based Therapy
- Structural Family Therapy
- Transpersonal Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Whether you’re just beginning to explore adoption or have lived with it for decades, you deserve a space to be heard, supported, and empowered.
Healing and Connection Are Possible
Adoption brings many layers of emotion — but you don’t have to navigate them alone. With the right support, understanding and healing are possible.
Therapists for Adoption
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