Power, Responsibility, & Curiosity: Talking about Race in Therapy

Micah is a licensed marriage and family therapy associate in the State of Indiana. Micah graduated from Indiana Wesleyan University in 2016 with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Micah completed his Master’s degree in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University Northwest in 2019.

Micah specializes in working with couples and other adult relationships on communication issues, managing emotions, and restoring trust. Micah is committed to working through an anti-racist, queer-friendly lens that challenges heteronormative and mononormative assumptions in relationships.

Adoption Therapy Webinars

Every therapist truly desires to be competent and helpful for all of their clients. Unfortunately, most clinicians were never provided even a basic introduction to adoption, let alone an explanation or analysis of the complexities adoption entails. Sixty-five percent of clinical psychologists surveyed were unable to recall any courses addressing adoption in graduate school, which is better than the eighty-six percent who could not recall any courses addressing adoption in their undergraduate coursework either (Javier, et al., 2006). Because adoptees are overrepresented in a variety of populations, including but not limited to competitive athletics, addictions, eating disorders, LGBTQ+, and incarceration, it is likely that you are working with adoptees whether you know it or not.

Too often, I have heard an adoptive parent say we went to a therapist, but it only seemed to make it worse. Adoptees seem to be more gentle in their assessment that it just didn’t help or the counselor didn’t get it. Because I know therapists really want to practice excellence and offer quality services, I am bringing together experts in the field of Adoption Therapy for easy access information on a variety of topics that impact adoptees, birth and biological parents, adoptive parents, and those in the child welfare system.