Adult Adoptees
I am an adoptee working to support other adult adoptees and those who are/have been in kinship care or special guardianship. Whilst every experience is unique, growing up in these circumstances can have life long impacts, impacts that those who have not had this direct experience often struggle to acknowledge or comprehend.
Are you feeling angry, anxious, lost, detached or overwhelmed? Maybe you are struggling with your identity and working out who you really are? Perhaps you find the relationships around you are complex, difficult to manage or unhealthy patterns keep repeating? Are you trying to navigate the impact of a traumatic childhood? Is your chosen way of coping with these difficult feelings causing you harm? All of these feelings and experiences, and anything and everything between, are valid, meaningful and deserve space.
I am here to support you, wherever you may be on your journey and whatever your story may be.
Each person I work with has their own unique experience of adoption and living as an adoptee. And at the same time, through my own personal experience and that of working with other adoptees, I feel there is an unspoken language and implicit understanding of what being an adoptee means, that only other adoptees can truly understand.
To book a free, initial call or to find out more about how I work, please contact me at emma@evolve-well.co.uk or call me on 07979 103672
Adoptee Specific Useful Resources
This is a selection of organisations, websites and other resources that might be useful to you as an adult adoptee and as you navigate your adoption story. Please just hold in mind that each of us, our stories and our journey's are unique, so feel free to just pick and choose from this list what, if anything, feels useful to you right now.
Adoption Mosaic - A US based BIPOC woman and adoptee-led mission-driven non-profit. They have lots of different webinars on issues that face adoptees and a library pf all their previous webinars that you can go back and watch. They also have online meet ups and other resources.
www.adoptionmosaic.com
PAC UK - Support for adopted people (also birth parents, adoptive parents, prospective adopters and special guardians) Includes self-help resources and a help line.
www.family-action.org.uk
How to be Adopted – Support for adult adoptees run by adopted people. Adoptee community with face-to-face and virtual meet-ups and retreats. How to be Adopted offers adoptees connection and sharing with one another, improving wellbeing and am sense of belonging.
The Dunbar Project – UK adoption organisation made by adopted people. Helping adult adoptees heal through their trauma to evolve into the best versions of themselves. Providing various training, workshops, support groups, coaching, and events.
The Dunbar Project
Lara Leon and Gili Bruce - Two great voices in the adoptee community who have a Youtube channel together called Adoptees in Alliance which you can access here. Lara's website has a blog and her own Youtube channel Lara Leon | Adoption Research | Adoptee Support | Retreats She also released an Adoptee personal guide and journal last year called Adopted & Seen. Gili has done lots of very informative videos and podcasts so just give her a name a google. One that I found particularly informative is a webinar she did for PAC UK in Oct 2025 titled 'Adoption, trauma and the body - Exploring the connection' which can be viewed here
Paul Sunderland - Although not an adoptee himself, Paul has done some very interesting work within the field of adoption, especially around adoptees and addiction and trauma
'The Primal Wound' and 'Coming Home to Self' by Nancy Verrier - www.nancyverrier.com
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson - (not adoptee specific) - www.newharbinger.com/9781626251700/adult-children-of-emotionally-immature-parents
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