THE JOURNEY HOME

Case Consultation for Clinicians Working with Adopted Adults

Being adopted shapes identity, relationships, and the way a person moves through grief and transition. It lives just beneath the surface—informing how adoptees experience themselves and the world, whether it’s spoken or not.

You already know this. You’ve seen how varied adoption can be—and how, underneath that variation, familiar themes keep emerging: belonging and not belonging, attachment and rupture, disconnection, the ongoing negotiation of self.

This work can feel isolating. Clinicians trained to work deeply with adopted adults are few. Many of us are piecing it together as we go—often carrying both clinical insight and lived experience in the room.

This consultation group is a space where you don’t have to translate the work. Where the nuances are already understood. Where you can bring the cases that linger, the moments you’re unsure of, the places you feel pulled in. Each month will offer space for case consultation, reflection, and integration.

Whether adoption is at the center of your client’s work or quietly shaping it from the edges, this group supports you in meeting it with more clarity, depth, and attunement.

Who is This Consultation Group For

  • Clinicians currently working with adopted adults who want want to go deeper

  • Both seasoned and newer clinicians seeking thoughtful, case-based dialogue

Specialized Focus, Shared Expertise, and a Deep Dive

This is a space where we can think clearly, feel deeply, and stay connected to the work.

  • Practicality: actual approaches to healing, not just identifying problems.

  • Add Depth: Formulate an understanding of your client’s through case conceptualization

  • Community: Connect to a others who already “get it” and can add perspective

  • Open a Discussions of current events impacting the adoption world

  • Soulfulness: lean into the stories, metaphors, and felt sense of what adoption brings into a life

  • Gain Support to navigate counter transference

How your Client’s Will Benefit

  • Have a space where they can explore the impact of adoption on their identity, relationships, and stress responses

  • Engage in their experience and healing with an Adoption Competent Therapist and offers Trauma Informed Care

  • Heal wounds that have been left unaddressed in past therapy

About Kimberley, Your Group Leader
As an adoptee herself, Kimberley brings lived experience into the room alongside over a decade of clinical training in attachment, Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, IPNB, parts work, and NARM. She has also trained with Robyn Gobbel in her year-long masterclass on adoption.

She came into this field with a clear intention: to work with adoptees. Early on, she was told that wasn’t really a specialty, that client’s didn’t come in for adoption issues. Yet, as an adopted person, she knew that advice was wrong and forged ahead by studying grief, attachment, and childhood trauma. She’s happy that in the past 15 years the Austin therapy community has begun to recognizing the depth and complexity of adoption and the need for true adoption competency.

Her work is relational, trauma-informed, and experiential—integrating somatic work, parts work, and expressive practices. She is especially drawn to the places that are harder to name: the quiet grief, the questions of identity and belonging, and the ways adoption continues to shape a person’s life over time.

Details:

  • First Monday of the Month 10am-11:40pm
    (We not meet July and December)

  • $60 per meeting
    Requires a commitment of 6 sessions regardless of attendance
    2 CEUs Per meeting; Up to 20 CEUs a year
    Available for LPC, LMFT, and Social Workers

  • Limited to 8 participants

  • Currently this is expected to be a Zoom meeting. However, if the group wishes to meet in person we can arrange to meet at my offices in south Austin or I can look for a central location.

PLEASE NOTE:

  • This group will focus on the lifelong impact adoption and centers on the experience and needs of those who are adopted.

  • This group is intended to develop skills to offer Adoption-Informed Therapy for Adults. It does not teach parenting skills or how to work with young children.

  • This group is neither pro nor anti adoption.
    Some topics may challenge you to question the systems that facilitate adoption and the pervading beliefs about adoption. I ask that you be willing to reflect on your personal beliefs and feelings and allow growth and compassion to the topics presented.