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Adoptee Competent Resources
Explore these Adoptee Competent resources for the trauma healing journey.
Click on the image above to access the Adoptee Therapist Directory if you are looking for a provider:
“This directory includes licensed U.S. mental health professionals who identify as adoptees and work with adoptees / adoptive families in a variety of public and private settings. Only providers who have voluntarily submitted their information have been listed.
To search for providers internationally, visit ICAV's Post-Adoption Support page.”
Click on the image above to access the Adoptee Recommended Resources:
“Adoptees Connect is a peer-led, adoptee-centric connect group for adult adoptees. Jarring statistics of adoptees attempting suicide 4x more than non-adoptees as well as prisons, jails, treatment facilities and mental health facilities being overpopulated with adoptees, makes our mission all the more vital. Our hope is that our mission will ultimately help to counteract with these staggering statistics.”
Click on the image above to learn more about the Adoptees Connect Community:
We aren’t designed to walk our journeys alone.
“We all need support every now and then. Connecting with other Adult Adoptees who understand is a life changing experience. Even if they are at different stages of their adoption journey, they’ll understand what it is you’re going through and be able to give you the encouragement you need to keep going.”
Trauma + Sensory Processing Dysfunction
Watch Turn Down the Music: Connecting Trauma and Sensory Process Dysfunction and download our free Daily Sensory Self-Care Log to help with emotional regulation and sensory processing. Aversions and strong preferences on taste, texture, sound, and sights can be directly linked to trauma experienced through adoption and foster care. We are honored to offer these three free videos from the Capstone Project of Elizabeth McCann, OTS, through Baylor University toward her Doctorate in Occupational Therapy. Learn, self-reflect, and gain simple strategies to improve daily functioning.
What is Sensory Processing?
What are Your Sensory Styles?
Simple Strategies to Help