Dr. Christina Reese has been working with children impacted by trauma and their families for the last 20 years. She is a licensed clinical counselor in Maine, Maryland and Pennsylvania and is a licensed clinical supervisor. She is an internationally recognized trainer for mental health professionals in creating Trauma-Informed Schools, working with Mental Health in the Classroom and Attachment and Trauma in Children. She is a TBRI practitioner and owns Felicity Counseling Services. Dr. Reese authored the books Attachment, Puzzle Pieces, The Attachment Connection, Trauma and Attachment, The Soc...
Lori began writing about and researching myriad perspectives on adoption when her children were toddlers. She began exploring and writing about adoption in 2007, and later wrote The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption with her daughter's birth mom, published in 2013.
Lori continues to learn from a diverse set of adoption viewpoints through her podcast, Adoption: The Long View. Lori's daughter and son are now young adults, and Lori is passionate about passing on to newer adoptive parents all she wished she'd known earlier.
Lori writes essays articles regularly at LavenderLuz.com. Her latest boo...
Introduction to the Adoption Home Study Adopting a child is a transformative and heart-warning journey, but it's also a process laden with complexities and reg...
Placing my baby girl for adoption when I was sixteen years old was immensely difficult because I love her deeply. But I also wanted more for her than what I cou...