Adoption Therapy
Adoption Therapy for Women in Colorado
You've felt more than one thing about this, whichever side you're on: the mother who adopted, the mother who placed a child, or the woman who was adopted herself. You don't have to have sorted out how you feel to start. Not yet.
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Why This Space Matters
Adoption Rarely Comes With Just One Feeling.
Grief and relief, love and loss, gratitude and anger can all be true at once. None of them cancel the others out. That contradiction isn't a sign something's wrong with you.
Colorado Women's Center is designed for women. Wherever you're standing in this doesn't need explaining first. Every therapist here works with adoption often enough to know your experience rarely comes with one simple feeling attached.
Therapists who don't ask which feeling is the right one.
Our Promise to You
We Guarantee Our Therapist Matching
This is already complicated enough without you also managing a therapist who doesn't fit. Getting the match right matters more here than it does for a lot of what we see. If your first therapist isn't the right fit, we'll match you with another at no additional cost. That's the whole guarantee.
Request a Free ConsultationWhat This Can Look Like
The Signs You Might Already Recognize.
Adoption can touch identity, relationships, and emotional well-being, often all at once. See if this sounds familiar.
Conflict of Identity
Questions about who you are. Or where you belong, without a simple answer.
Feelings of Isolation
Feeling like people around you can't quite understand this. Not really.
Overwhelming Grief and Loss
Grief that shows up. Even when the outcome was also right for you, or wanted.
Emotional Ambivalence
Guilt and relief. Love and loss. Existing at the same time without canceling each other out.
Difficulty Trusting Relationships
A harder time trusting closeness, especially where attachment or separation are involved.
Self-Esteem Challenges
Your sense of worth. Tangled up with questions this experience keeps raising.
Confusion Over Family Roles
Uncertainty about where you fit. Or what role you're supposed to play now.
Compounded Stress
This landing on top of other changes already asking a lot of you, like becoming a parent yourself.
Our Approach
How It Works Here.
Getting started doesn't require you to have this figured out first. No plan required. Here's what the first few steps actually look like.
The Match Call Comes First.
Before you're paired with anyone, a Wellness Coordinator listens to what's going on and what you're looking for, then matches you with a therapist based on that conversation. That's the whole call.
Working With the Memories That Won't Settle.
You're matched with one consistent therapist, who often draws on EMDR therapy to help specific memories tied to separation, loss, or attachment move from feeling present to feeling past. One therapist. One relationship.
Understanding Your Own Place in the Bigger Picture.
Alongside that, you can build in family systems therapy to understand your own patterns and role within the family structure adoption created, worked through in your own individual sessions.
You Lead, She Follows.
Client-centered therapy means the direction of each session comes from what's actually on your mind, not a fixed idea of which feelings you're supposed to be working through.
Common Questions
What You're Probably Wondering.
Does it matter which side of the adoption I'm on?
No. Whether you're the mother who adopted, the mother who placed a child, or someone who was adopted yourself, your therapist works with your specific experience. There's no generic script written for just one particular role in this whole story.
Will my therapist need every detail before we start?
No. You control how much you share and exactly when you choose to share it. Some women start with what's happening right now, others start much further back in their own history, and both are treated as fine, valid starting points.
What if I feel relief and guilt at the same time?
Yes. Relief and guilt showing up together at once is common here, not a sign something's wrong with you. Your therapist can help you hold both feelings at once, without ever needing to decide which one is the correct one.
How soon can I actually get in?
Match Calls are usually available within 48 hours and often within 24. Most new clients are scheduled with a therapist within about a week, depending on your own availability, and sessions run seven days a week from 8am to 8pm.
Can I do this from home, or does it have to be an office?
Either. Colorado Women's Center offers in-person sessions at five Front Range offices and online sessions anywhere in Colorado. You can start online and move to an office later, or the other way around, depending on what works for your week.
Do I have to commit to a set number of sessions?
No. That's decided between you and your therapist rather than set in advance. Some women come in for a defined stretch of work, others keep an ongoing relationship with their therapist for longer. Both are treated as normal here, and the matching guarantee applies either way.
What actually happens on the Match Call?
A Wellness Coordinator listens to what's going on and what you're looking for. You control how much detail you share. Based on that conversation, she matches you with a therapist, and there's no assessment to complete before you talk to someone.
Related Support
Where to Go Next.
This rarely shows up by itself. If grief more broadly or trauma are part of the picture too, the pages below cover that ground directly. Or start from individual therapy for women and see the full list.
