This program is delivered as on-demand, self-paced online learning with reflection components.
This trauma-informed, psycho-educational program is designed for psychotherapists and counsellors working with adoptees and those affected by adoption. Volume One explores the emotional and psychological impact of adoption from conception through adolescence, including early separation, disrupted attachment, nervous system development, identity formation, and relational expectations. Drawing on developmental psychology, attachment theory, neuroscience, and lived experience, the online program supports ethical, adoption-aware, relationally attuned practice within clear professional boundaries.
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This program is delivered as on-demand, self-paced online learning with reflection components.
Lesson One explores the earliest foundations of an adoptee’s emotional and psychological development, from conception through the first six weeks of life. This lesson examines how the prenatal environment, early separation, and the severance of the emotional umbilical cord can shape attachment, emotional regulation, stress responses, and identity formation.
Drawing on neuroscience, attachment theory, epigenetics, and lived-experience perspectives, participants gain insight into how preverbal experiences are held in the body and nervous system. This program supports practitioners to apply adoption-sensitive awareness and assessment, when working with adopted clients, offering clinically relevant foundations for trauma-informed practice across the adoption constellation.
There are no formal pre-requisites for this program.
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This program is delivered as on-demand, self-paced online learning with reflection components.
Lesson Two explores the emotional and psychological development of adoptees from adoption through early childhood, a period when attachment patterns and emotional regulation begin to form. This program examines how separation, caregiving transitions, and early relational environments influence the developing nervous system, sense of safety, and capacity for connection.
Drawing on neuroscience, attachment theory, developmental psychology, and lived-experience perspectives, participants gain insight into how early relational experiences are encoded implicitly and expressed through behaviour. The program supports practitioners to apply adoption-sensitive awareness and assessment when working with young children and adult adoptees revisiting this life stage.
Completion of Lesson One: Conception to Six Weeks is a pre-requisite for this program.
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This program is delivered as on-demand, self-paced online learning with reflection components.
Lesson Three explores the emotional and psychological development of adoptees during the middle childhood years, when self-awareness, social comparison, and emotional regulation become more complex. This program examines how earlier experiences of separation, rejection, abandonment, grief, loss, and disrupted attachment may resurface as questions of identity, belonging, loyalty, and difference within family, school, and peer environments.
Drawing on neuroscience, attachment theory, developmental psychology, and lived-experience perspectives, participants gain insight into how early implicit imprints interact with growing cognitive and social awareness. Supporting adoption-sensitive assessment and therapeutic framework when working with both children and adult adoptees.
Completion of Lesson One: Conception to Six Weeks and Lesson Two: Adoption to Six Years is a pre-requisite for this program.
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This program is delivered as on-demand, self-paced online learning with reflection components.
Lesson Four explores the emotional and psychological development of adoptees during adolescence, a period marked by rapid neurological, emotional, and identity-related change. This program examines how earlier experiences of separation, loss, and disrupted attachment may intensify during these years, often emerging as emotional reactivity, identity uncertainty, relational sensitivity, or withdrawal.
Drawing on neuroscience, attachment theory, developmental psychology, and lived-experience perspectives, gaining insights into how early emotional imprints interact with adolescent brain development, autonomy-seeking, and peer relationships. The program supports adoption-sensitive assessment, language, and therapeutic pacing when working with adolescents and adults revisiting this life stage.
Completion of Lesson One: Conception to Six Weeks, Lesson Two: Adoption to Six Years, and Lesson Three: The Middle Childhood Years (6–12) are pre-requisites for this program.
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