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Adoptees’ Experiences of Counselling
This article is a summary of my thesis on adoptees and counselling. The thesis was entitled ‘Adoptees’ Perceptions of Their Counselling Experiences and Suggestions for Counsellors’. It was submitted as part of the requirements of the Masters in Psychology Counselling at Monash University in January 2017. Adoptees’ Experiences of Counselling Counsellors are not usually provided […]
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Begin Again – A Workshop for Adult Adoptees
I spoke with Sherry Hearn about her counselling / coaching business and the one day workshop she is offering to adopted people at Relationships Australia on 17 September 2016, in Adelaide. Sherry, you are an adopted person, born in New Zealand, in the 1970s. You grew up in Christchurch and Hawaii before studying at […]
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The Effects of Adoption – Training for Health Professionals
Anyone who has lived with their adoption experience over the past 60 to 70 years, whether as a mother, father or as an adopted person, will know how difficult it’s been to find a health professional who understood the challenges of living with an adoption legacy or who could offer an appropriate support therapy. After […]
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In Conversation with Maria Haenga-Collins, adopted person and PhD Candidate
I spoke to Maria Haenga-Collins, a PhD candidate in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History (School of History) at the Australian National University, about her studies and her experience of adoption. Maria is a Māori (Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Ngāi Tahu) woman who was first fostered, then adopted, into a Pākehā (white) family in the mid […]
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Counselling Experiences of Adult Adopted People
I spoke with Sue Rogers about her Masters thesis and her experience of living with adoption. More about Sue I grew up in Melbourne and have lived there all my life. My parents have a holiday house on the Mornington Peninsula at an area that is not well known. It is quiet, has dirt roads, […]