Here we provide a list of intercountry and transracial adoptee led post adoption services located in the USA:
Search Reunion Services
325Kamra (DNA testing kits provided to all Korean intercountry adoptees)
CCI Birth Family Search (Chinese adoptee peer support in searching)
Colombian Birth Family Searching
The Eftychia Project (Greek adoptee searching support)
Healing Puentes (based in Colombia, USA Colombian adoptee provides a search/reunion service for Colombian adoptees and families)
Operation Reunite (Vietnamese adoptees internationally searching for their Vietnamese families using DNA)
The following are Adoptive Parent led organisations that facilitate search and reunion:
Catalyst Foundation (return to country and searching service for Vietnamese adoptees)
Ethiopian Adoption Connection (EAC) (searching service for Ethiopian adoptees)
International Adoption Birth Family Search (searching service for Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Georgia, Armenia, and other countries of the former Soviet Union)
International Child Search Alliance (searching service for Chinese adoptees)
Research China (searching service for Chinese adoptees)
Counselling Therapy Services
Adoptee Therapists (a comprehensive list for counselling in the USA provided by Grow Beyond Words, Chaitra Wirta-Leiker)
Adoption Wellness (counselling, based in Wisconsin)
AIRE Consulting (counselling, group facilitation, based in Washington)
Amanda Baden (psychologist, based in New York)
Amy Geller (psychotherapist, based in New Jersey)
Aselefech Evans (social work therapist, based in Seattle)
Beyond Words Counselling & Consulting (counselling, based in California)
Blue Ridge Therapy Services (counselling, based in Virginia and provide tele health in DC, Maryland, Michigan, South Carolina, and Virginia)
Copihue Counselling (based in Arizona, TX)
D.E.A.R Abby Counselling (based in Texas)
Forbes Psychotherapy Practice (based in New Haven, CT)
Hiking the Heart Counselling Services (based in Wisconsin, Florida & Hawaii)
Jade Shapiro (based in Maryland)
Julie Bohannon (counselling, based in West Michigan and providing tele health)
Marcella Moslow (trauma and play therapy, based in NY)
Me Ok Icaro (sacred plant based guide)
Meg Eifrig Grief Therapy (based in Illinois)
Meggin Nam Holtz (counselling based in NY)
Mindful Forgiveness (based in Hawaii, provides free Mindfulness Training over zoom)
MCSCounsel (counselling, based in Texas)
Nancy Yen (counselling in trauma and family work, based in Massachusetts)
Nicole Rademacher (art therapist, based in LA)
Nooma Consulting (peer mentoring for adoptees & adoptive parent consulting)
Oh Myo Kim (cognitive therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, eating disorders, based in Massachusetts)
Patrick Robinson (counselling, based in Minnesota)
Stand by Me Counseling (based in Southern California)
Susan Branco-Alvarado (counselling, based in California)
The Expansion Collective (social work therapists, brainspotting, developmental trauma, religious trauma, based in Indianapolis)
Therapy Redeemed (counselling, free initial consultation for adoptees and adoptive families)
Unconditionally Adopted (therapy & mentoring for adolescent and young adult adoptees, specialises in sexual abuse counselling)
Yoffe Therapy (therapy for child, adult, parent)
Adoptee led organisations that provide financial assistance with a mental health provider: The Adoptee Group and IAMAdoptee
Therapists who are adoptees, featured at AdopteesOn (podcast run by Hayley Radke in Canada – domestic adoptee)
Other professional C.A.S.E adoption competent therapists (not adoptee led)
Other Post Adoption Services led by Adoptees
AdopteeHub (variety of post adoption services, based in Minnesota)
AdopteeBridge (variety of post adoption services, based in Minnesota)
Adoptee Mentoring Society (based in Seattle)
Adoption Mosaic / Astrid Consulting (peer support, education, counselling, based in Oregon)
Adoptive Family Travel – Ties Program (return trips to birth countries, based in Washington) and their Gift of Identity (program of sponsorship to help adoptees who can’t fully afford a return trip to birth country)
AIRE Consulting (curriculum development, group facilitation, social work, leadership, based in Washington)
Amara (post adoption program, based in Seattle, WA)
Bookmark Connections (psychology led facilitation of intercultural effectiveness workshops, based in Oregon)
Celia Center (adoption, foster care support for all in the constellation, based in LA)
Spence-Chapin (teen and young adult programs with adult adoptees, based in NY)
The Inclusion Initiative (for foster alumni and transracial adoptees looking for career and professional development support and network)
Language Services
Learn to speak Korean fluenty with Robert’s support. His mother is a Korean intercountry adoptee.
Legal Services
Domestic USA adoptee and lawyer who specialises in helping intercountry adoptees with cases of citizenship, deportation, accessing paperwork, adoption discharge, see Adoptee Rights Law Centre and Adoptees United run by Gregory Luce.
Korean intercountry adoptee and lawyer who specialises in helping intercountry adoptees with cases of citizenship, see Howe Laws run by Emily Howe.
Colombian intercountry adoptee and lawyer, Jimmy L Thyden González who specialises in illegal intercountry adoption, working to obtain reparations for victims of counterfeit adoptions, trafficked and disappeared children. Grafting Hope. Read his latest coverage here.
Informal Peer Support
For a comprehensive list of intercountry adoptee led informal peer supports around the world by adoptive country or birth country, click here.