Continuing education for clinicians
Adoption-Competent Counseling
A self-paced course helping mental-health professionals understand adoption as a lifelong experience — and work more competently with adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families.
What you’ll explore
Foundations
What adoption is, the seven core issues, and how they surface across a lifetime.
Identity, loss & grief
How adoptees carry identity questions and disenfranchised grief into adult work.
Language & the clinical encounter
The vocabulary of adoption and how to hold it with care in the room.
Clinical practice
Applying an adoption-competent lens, complexity, context, and continued learning.