Supporting Adoptive Families
so both parent and child can thrive together
Purpose
Vision
All adoptees feeling supported by their adoptive parents and recovering from their attachment wounds.
Mission
Helping adoptive parents create deep emotional connections with their children.
About the Founder
Nicole Gfeller has had a long-standing dream of helping improve the lives of adopted children so that they can move from surviving to thriving.
Her own personal experience as an adoptee growing up and struggling with mental health issues became the catalyst for her passion of helping adoptive families connect and flourish together.
Change is possible for your family too.
Services
Consultation
For adoptive parents who struggle with their children’s behaviours and mutual lack of connection, we help them repair disconnection and strengthen their relationship.
We also support future parents who would like to be informed from the start about how they can best support their future child in a proactive way.
Counselling
For adoptive parents and teenagers who would like to repair their relationship after having grown apart and become stuck in painful behaviours patterns.
We offer online counselling best fitted for parents and teenagers who want to reconnect despite difficulties and move from surviving to thriving together.
Workshops
For adoptive parents who want to deepen their understanding of their child’s inner world and learn how to become their child’s number one support system.
We also offer workshops for foster parents, social workers, agency workers, teachers and anyone supporting children with a history of separation from bio family.
What makes us unique
Personal Story
Our personal experience as adoptees growing up with mental health issues without emotional support at home helped us develop deep understanding for other adoptees who are hurting.
We use our adoption story as an invaluable gift to help adoptive parents understand and connect with their children in a unique way.
Training
We are trained and registered therapists with extensive knowledge about the latest research in the fields of trauma, attachment, neuroscience, and child development.
We can provide science-based information on how trauma impacts the brain, nervous system, memory, attachment, emotions, and behaviours among others.
Work Experience
We have 8+ years of hands-on clinical experience working as trauma therapists with children and teens growing up in adoptive or foster families, or in orphanages.
We have had the priviledge of supporting many young clients struggling with mental health challenges and trauma-based symptoms stemming from adverse childhood experiences.