Consultations

What is Non-Therapeutic Consulting at Adoption Mosaic

Our non-therapeutic consultations offer a supportive space for individuals, families, and community members seeking guidance around adoption without entering a therapeutic or clinical relationship. These sessions are grounded in empathy, curiosity, and lived-and-learned expertise, not diagnosis or treatment.

In both one-on-one and family consultations, you’ll meet with adoptee-centered experts who have spent decades working within and around adoption systems. Our team includes former caseworkers, court-appointed expert witnesses, professionals from post-adoption organizations to adoption agencies. Every consultant also brings personal lived experience of adoption. We are adoptees, birth/first parents, and adoptive parents; we know these complexities not just professionally, but personally. 

Four of our five consultants have over 20 years of direct experience in adoption work, and all are trainers and educators within Adoption Mosaic’s programs. We are actively engaged in a growing community of critical thinkers, scholars, and adoptees who are expanding what adoption education can look like. We continue to learn, reflect, and adapt — because adoption support is evolving rapidly as more adoptee-centered programs, research, and voices come forward.

Through consultations, we can help you

• Explore questions or challenges in people's adoption journey, identity, or relationships

• Understand how adoption systems, history, and culture shape lived experience

• Receive customized resources and guidance tailored to each person's unique situation

• Find adoption-competent, trauma-informed therapists and supportive providers

• Connect with broader adoptee-centered community spaces and networks

These consultations are short-term, focused, and resource-oriented. While we are not providing therapy, we draw from a wealth of collective knowledge, lived experience, and community wisdom, often going far beyond what most therapists are trained in or have access to. Our consultants are available to meet with people over time as well as scheduling "check ins" when needed. 

Our goal is to walk with our clients for a meaningful moment in their journey, helping them feel more grounded, more informed, and more connected to compassionate support.  

Because no one should ever have to do this alone.

*Community support available for adult adoptees.