Susie Wallace MEd, EdS, LPCA; MA, OTR/L
Adoption-competent therapy offers your family three essential gifts:
Deep Understanding: Insight into how adoption, loss, and trauma shape a child's development and behavior.
Practical Tools: Proven, sensory and attachment-informed strategies to support your daily family life.
Parental Confidence and Healing: Guidance and exercises to navigate your own adoption-specific parenting tasks, helping you feel grounded, less reactive, and hopeful for the future.
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For nearly 40 years, Susie has had the joy of working with children and families in almost every setting imaginable; from the quiet settings of hospital clinics and schools, to bustling family homes, and peaceful equine facilities.
These decades of experience have taught her one fundamental truth: parents and children do well when they can do well- and they can do well when they feel safe, connected, cohesive, and competent. In adoption, families navigate unique developmental tasks that are both universal and completely normal within this context. Adoption competency provides the framework and interventional tools to guide parents and children through these specific milestones, empowering families to thrive together.
Susie is well-equipped to guide you through the nuances of trauma, grief, loss, sensory processing, and social-emotional needs. You will be provided with practical, adoption-competent strategies to translate that understanding into daily life, creating an environment where their child feels safe, connected, and truly understood
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As an adoptive mother, Susie deeply understands the depth of your commitment. She recognizes your need for steady support, clear information, deep empathy, and adoption-competent guidance as you walk alongside your child through the lifelong journey of adoption.
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Because Susie is passionate about providing the highest level of care for the adoptive community, she has completed elite Training in Adoption (TAC) training through the Center for Adoption Support and Education:
This means your work together isn't just professional - it’s deeply informed, sensitive, and tailored to the beautiful complexities of the adoptive journey
The 7 core issues of adoption
Loss
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Rejection
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Shame and Guilt
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Grief
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Identity
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Intimacy
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Mastery and Control
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At Adoptive Health, we believe in nurturing the unique developmental needs of adoptive children and families through the structure of the 7 core issues of adoption.
Influenced greatly by a Trust-Based Relational stance, we foster safe environments where families can explore emotions, identities, and personal growth together. Adoptive health is created through connection, sensory safety, attachment-based parenting practices, and knowledge of adoption-related developmental tasks.
We will find the approach that works best for your specific needs and temperament, drawn from clinically proven therapy techniques tailored for adoptive parents. We focus on helping you to align your thoughts, values, emotional experiences, and care for your child in a way that is helpful and healthy for the whole family.
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Susie Wallace
MEd, EdS, LPCA; MA, OTR/L
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For nearly 40 years, Susie has had the joy of working with children and families in almost every setting imaginable; from the quiet settings of hospital clinics and schools, to bustling family homes, and peaceful equine facilities.
These decades of experience have taught her one fundamental truth: parents and children do well when they can do well- and they can do well when they feel safe, connected, cohesive, and competent. In adoption, families navigate unique developmental tasks that are both universal and completely normal within this context. Adoption competency provides the framework and interventional tools to guide parents and children through these specific milestones, empowering families to thrive together.
Susie is well-equipped to guide you through the nuances of trauma, grief, loss, sensory processing, and social-emotional needs. You will be provided with practical, adoption-competent strategies to translate that understanding into daily life, creating an environment where their child feels safe, connected, and truly understood
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As an adoptive mother, Susie deeply understands the depth of your commitment. She recognizes your need for steady support, clear information, deep empathy, and adoption-competent guidance as you walk alongside your child through the lifelong journey of adoption.
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Because Susie is passionate about providing the highest level of care for the adoptive community, she has completed elite Training in Adoption (TAC) training through the Center for Adoption Support and Education:
This means your work together isn't just professional - it’s deeply informed, sensitive, and tailored to the beautiful complexities of the adoptive journey
Core Values
At Adoptive Health, we prioritize empathy, understanding, and empowerment.
We are dedicated to creating an inclusive, non-judgmental space for adoptive families, recognizing that each family's journey is unique.
We are committed to utilizing evidence-based therapy approaches and adoption-competent practices that respect the emotional and developmental timelines of our clients.
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We value collaboration with families and professionals to cultivate supportive relationships that promote healing and growth. Sensory safety and developmental congruence guide our therapeutic approach, ensuring a compassionate environment that facilitates meaningful progress.
We believe growth happens naturally when the right supports are in place. We trust in the innate goodness and wisdom of every parent and child.