Continuing education for clinicians
Adoption-Competent Counseling
A self-paced course helping mental-health professionals understand being adopted as a lifelong experience and work more competently with adult adoptees.
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.
Complexity & context
Transracial, intercountry, kinship, and foster-to-adopt adoptees, plus donor conception and the records and policy system around a client.
Integration & continued learning
Where competence goes from here, and a practice plan for after the course ends.