Adoptee Therapy

Fellow adoptees, you deserve a provider who understands the core issues of adoption and is sensitive to your individual experiences. You deserve a provider who has both advanced trauma training and is an expert on adoption issues. You deserve attention around discovering your identity and reconciling your struggles. You deserve a provider willing to dig deep and continue learning about your experiences that are different from their own. Have you ever wondered:

Jean is a twice adopted, adoptee therapist born in the United States. Her adoption was closed adoption; she is in reunion with her families. You can listen to more about her personal story on these podcast episodes:

Pulled By The Root- Episode 58 Jean Provance

Thriving Adoptees- Busting Beliefs E344

Thriving Adoptees- Authentically You E450

Jean works through an intersubjective and phenomenological view of attachment and adoption trauma using EMDR and creative expression.

Do all adoptees feel like this? What’s wrong with me?

Did adoption cause me to feel how I feel? Does adoption have anything to do with these feelings at all?

Why do I feel disconnected, confused, depressed, angry, anxious?

Is it okay to search, make contact, connect? How?

How can I manage so many emotions?

What about me? I don’t want to search. I’ve had a happy life and I’m just curious, is this wrong?

I’m struggling with relationships, and I’ve tried everything, but nothing seems to work out.

I’m struggling to connect to my roots, and I feel confused. Why?

Adoptee Groups Therapy and Support

The support group is for adults 18 years or older who were adopted only. All adoptees are welcome on a drop-in basis. The group is not for prospective adopters, adoptive parents or other family members, natural/first/birth parents, adoption professionals or persons exploring adoption placement.

The therapy group is a closed group of adoptees who have agreed to come together in community towards mutual growth and healing from adoption trauma, and its many associated losses. It is a space to deeply explore with self and others.

  • Support groups are for people with a common living or lived experience. It is not therapy but for support and affirmation. Support groups give members a chance to know they are not alone and hear different points of view. It is member driven and we work together a group member could lead a meeting.

    Therapy groups are run by licensed professionals with specific goals for the participants. We match participants with common goals and needs. There is a limit of the number of people in group between 5-7. There are set number of meetings over the course of a number of weeks.

  • Our support group will run virtually and be free of charge. Support by donated funds to cover the cost of the virtual platform are welcome.

    Our therapy group is run professionally for the purpose of therapeutic healing work. There is a fee which covers the cost of healthcare record keeping, licensing, ongoing educational requirements. The fee is billable to your insurance if you have out of network benefits (OON) and you request a superbill.

  • For therapy groups, at FeatherLight Counseling, yes, you do need to be in New Jersey.

    For our support group you can be pretty much anywhere because it is only for mutual support and connection and is not therapy.

  • Sometimes support groups are enough and sometimes not. Support and therapy are different and are not substitutes for each other.

    Often support groups make connection accessible have a lower cost if any at all where people can drop in.

    Therapy groups help people continue deeper healing work with a professional who is trained to help with many mental health concerns.

    Sometimes support groups are enough and other times they are beneficial in supporting people through difficult therapy process.

    It’s a personal decision for you and your provider to make in deciding what you need most.