About Adoption Support
Families formed through adoption include hopes for a successful and loving, forever family but sometimes family life doesn’t work out in the way we hope it will. As a result, it is understandable that adoptive parents can end up feeling isolated, helpless, anxious, burnt out, and fearful for the future.
Therapy can help by offering your family a safe space to explore what’s happening and to work out how to move forward in a positive way.
Areas of Expertise
Pre-adoption support
(e.g., matching, introductions)Adopting a second/additional child
Post-adoption support
Difficulties bonding
Post adoption depression
Difficulties co-parenting
Parenting a traumatised child
School difficulties
Managing contact with siblings/birth family/letterbox
Adoptive families at risk of breakdown
Families/couples managing post adoption breakdown
HOW I CAN HELP
Therapy for your family
You may be facing challenges that seem more intense or long lasting than expected, or you might be facing difficulties you’re unsure how to overcome, such as difficulties bonding, uncertainty about how to parent a traumatised child, having a child that is resistant/rejecting of you and your parenting, difficulties with their identity and how to support them, escalating disagreements/conflict, and challenging, or risky behaviours. As a result, it is understandable that adoptive parents can end up feeling isolated, helpless, anxious, burnt out, and fearful for the future.
Therapy often this starts with supporting you as parents first, before evolving into a dyadic process that leans into your attachment relationship with your child or children. Using evidence-based attachment-focused and trauma-informed therapy models, Dr Taylor will support you to explore and respond therapeutically to both your own and your child’s experiences.
