Adoption

Support for every part of the adoption journey — before, during, and after.

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:

• Acceptance & Commitment (ACT)
• Attachment-based
• Christian Counseling
• Clinical Supervision & Licensed Supervisor
• Coaching
• Cognitive Behavior (CBT)
• Compassion Focused
• Couples Counseling
• Creative & Expressive Art
• Culturally Sensitive
• Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
• Eclectic
• Emotionally Focused
• Existential
• Experiential
• Family Systems
• Family Therapy
• Gestalt
• Gottman Method
• Humanistic
• Integrative
• Interpersonal
• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
• Motivational Interviewing
• Multicultural
• Narrative
• Person-Centered
• Play Therapy
• Positive Psychology
• Rational Emotive Behavior (REBT)
• Relational
• Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
• Strength-Based
• Trauma Focused