Hello! I am a busy wife and mother to three beautiful girls. I have loved and valued growing through my adoption journey. At 30 days old, I was adopted through The Children’s Home Society of Florida in a closed adoption process. As a domestic adoptee, I grew up in Kansas with an older brother and loving parents. As an adult, I began my reunion process with my birth parents. I have been in reunion with my birth-mother for around 10 years and my birth-father around 5. Being a Baby-Scoop-Era (post WWII to early 1970s) adoptee, I have seen the change of social views and legislation that permit and empower better treatment of newer generations within the adoptee community. I found my first support group while in college, but after marrying and moving to Texas, I was unable to find local adoptee support outside of licensed professionals and counselors. Even then, I found that licensed professionals are often unprepared to address adoptee trauma and aid in their life-long journey.  My desire to connect other adoptees within my community led to the co-founding of AOET in 2022.

Welcome! I’m an international Ukrainian-American adoptee. I was adopted out of a Ukrainian orphanage in the city of Donetsk at four years old. Though I was raised in a loving and supportive family, I found that I still struggled in the areas of attachment, emotion regulation, learning disabilities, change, and identity. In 2019, I reunited with my birth family, but have yet to meet them in-person. Around the same time is when I started to get connected within the adoptee community and realized I was not alone in these struggles specifically impacted by my adoption and life prior to my adoption. I provide counseling services in a group practice. I’m passionate about bringing awareness to the need for lifelong adoptee support, support for those in the foster care system, for those who have aged out of the system, and ultimately support for individuals within the adoption constellation. My hope is to see local adoption support expand to meet the needs of adult adoptees across Texas.