Adoptees On

We talk with Katie Jae Naftzger, LICSW about what to do when you don't find answers at the end of your search. Katie shares about her trips back to Korea to search and her two moments of clarity durin...

24 Maalis 201719min

Anne Heffron (author of You Don't Look Adopted) goes deep into all kinds of things in her story, including failures that she attributes to adoption trauma, things she's working on to find healing, wha...

17 Maalis 201753min

We talk with Melissa K. Nicholson, LMSW about adoptee suicide (sometimes in a graphic manner and so please listen at your discretion). An incredibly important topic as adoptees are at a greater risk f...

10 Maalis 201715min

Fellow adoptee and therapist, Lesli A. Johnson, MFT teaches us all about EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing by Dr. Francine Shapiro). We talk about what it is and Lesli explai...

24 Helmi 201715min

An interview with John, an adoptee who accidentally discovered he was adopted at age 10. We unpack the strain this placed on his relationship with his adoptive parents and the trust issues this has ca...

17 Helmi 20171h 2min

Pamela Cordano, MFT addresses the question that many adoptees struggle with, "Why Me?". Pam shares that it's a natural, yet painful question for us to struggle with. We talk about how we can work on h...

10 Helmi 201718min

An interview with Kelley Baumgartner an adoptee who found her birthmother via a public social media poster search. You've likely seen her facebook post where she held up a poster with personal details...

3 Helmi 201754min

A bonus episode featuring Lesli A. Johnson, MFT where we speak about surviving the holidays as an adoptee. Lesli coaches us through some situations where we may feel triggered, and shares some practic...

16 Joulu 201614min