Adoption Support

Adoption touches lives in deeply personal and often complex ways for birth parents, adopters, special guardians and adoptees alike. Each journey carries its own story, shaped by love, loss, hope, identity and change, and no two experiences are the same. This space offers a calm, compassionate and understanding environment where all voices are welcome and your adoption experience can be explored with sensitivity, respect and care.

As an adoptee, I found it hard to seek tailored help from a counsellor that specialised in adoption. Offering help to anyone involved in the adoption journey was therefore always something I wanted to offer as part of my private practice.

I hold a Certificate in Adoption Support Counselling as provided by the Albany Centre in partnership with Barnardo's. It has built on my existing knowledge of the adoption process and as well as my personal experience of being an adoptee, has allowed me to understand how it affects all parties and the journeys that everyone goes through within that. If you are an adult affected by adoption on either side, please reach out.

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Birth Family

If you are part of a birth family who has experienced the profound and often complex journey of placing a child for adoption, you may carry feelings that are difficult to name or have gone unspoken for a long time — grief, love, loss, guilt, longing, or uncertainty. You are not alone in this, and whatever you feel is valid.

Processing past choices, making sense of reconnecting, or simply finding space for your emotions to breathe - I am here for you to allow any of that to be heard and understood.

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Adopters & Special Guardianship

If you are an adoptive parent or special guardian seeking counselling, you may be navigating a range of emotions and experiences that come with the deeply meaningful role of caring for a child who joined your life through adoption or an SGO.

Alongside love and commitment, there can also be feelings of uncertainty, overwhelm, grief, or questions about attachment, identity and how best to support your child’s emotional world.

Whether you are seeking support with the challenges of parenting, exploring family dynamics, or wanting space to reflect on your own feelings and experiences, counselling can provide a steady place to strengthen understanding, confidence and connection within your family.

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Adoptees

If you are an adoptee seeking counselling, you may be carrying thoughts or feelings linked to your adoption that can feel complex, confusing, or hard to put into words. Questions around identity, belonging, loss, loyalty, rejection, or curiosity about your origins can surface at different stages of life and in different ways.

I can offer a first-hand empathic understanding and help you navigate relationships, explore thoughts and motivations around contact, or simply seek a deeper understanding of yourself and personal meaning.