This LLC, established by Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker, offers a directory of professional (medical and mental health) resources in the Denver Metro Area. Dr. Wirta-Leiker specializes in issues of race, identity, societal expectations, family relationships, and adoption.
This article answers whether adoptees have trouble with trust, intimacy, and attachment in romantic relationships. The author is the partner of an adoptee and a licensed MFT. Her advice is empathetic, supportive, and could help anybody interested in improving a relationship affected by adoption.
This blog article gives an adoptee’s perspective on how adoptees handle dating, attachment styles, and feelings. This resource might help adoptees explain how their identity and attachment formations affect their romantic relationships.
This forum is dedicated to supporting spouses of adoptees. It addresses attachment issues, self-blaming, and trust and commitment issues. These perspectives are not universally true and some topics may be triggering. This resource provides spouses of adoptees with community and different perspectives.
This article explains some of the overlooked parts of being adopted that adoptees want others to know about. It explains how adoption is a lifelong journey, adoptees need to claim their identity, and more. This is a great resource for people who want to better understands the adoptee identity.
This blog article shares the author’s experiences and perspective about what it’s like to be the spouse of an adoptee. He empathizes with his wife’s feelings, explains his own feelings, and explains how he supports her. This resource will benefit spouses of adoptees who want to understand and support their partners.
The Adoption Reconnect Facebook page focuses on partners of adoptees. It validates their feelings, examines adoptees’ feelings, and explains how to care for their adoptee partner. This information sheet benefits spouses of adoptees who want to better understand and support their partners.
This is a brief article that explains some things that adoptees would like others to know about them. It describes how adoptees are similar to everyone else, how they are different, and encourages people to not assume things about adoption. This is a good resource for people who want to learn more about adoption and the adoptee identity.
This blog article shares the author’s experiences about how she overcame trust issues with her spouse. The center of the story is about how she worked through the decision to give her husband access to her medical information. This is a good resource for adoptees who are figuring out how and why to remedy trust issues with their spouse.
The Chile Adoption Birth Family Search Facebook group is for helping Chilean adoptees to search for their birth families in Chile and reconnect with their birth families. As of 2020, they celebrated 10 years of searches and 300 successful birth family searches.
