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Why Adoption-Informed Therapy Matters for Adoptees and Their Families

Adoption touches everyone in the triad - adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families - in ways that often stay hidden beneath the surface. For years, the mental health field treated adoption as a single event: a legal transfer of parental rights. But anyone who has lived with adoption knows it is not a moment. It is a lifelong process that shapes identity, attachment, and emotional well-being. That is why adoption-informed therapy has become an essential approach for ther