Bridgepointe Therapy provides individual and family therapy to adoptive families (international, domestic, and foster), pre-adopt families, and foster or kinship families. Concerns that are commonly addressed include the following:
Children and Teens (8 years+):
- family relationship issues
- procesing difficult information about child’s history or birth family
- peer relationship issues and poor social skills
- anxiety or excessive worrying
- depression and suicidal thoughts
- anger
- self-esteem and identity
- trauma and post-traumatic stress
- grief and loss related to adoption, and losses of people or pets
- school difficulties
- transracial adoption issues
- preparing to adopt or adjustment to adoption
- adoption search and reunion with birth family
Adoptive Parents:
- sharing difficult information with your child about adoption history or birth parents
- coaching on using therapeutic parenting strategies
- support bonding and addressing difficult feelings toward adopted child
- guidance navigating birth family relationships
- education on developmental trauma and impact of adoption on child
Adult Adoptees:
- processing adoption history
- preparing for birth family search and reunion
- support navigating birth family relationships
- identity and self-esteem
- anxiety
- depression
- relationship issues
- grief and loss
- trauma
In addition to in person sessions at her Charleston area offices, Emily offers ongoing video sessions and one-time video consultations for teens and adults who reside in Greenville, Columbia, Rock Hill, Hilton Head and throughout South Carolina.
Contact Emily to learn more about how she addresses adoption-related topics.
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