Adult Adoptee Archives : Kate Murphy Therapy
Kate Murphy, LCSW specializes in working with people suffering from anxiety and depression, and provides couples therapy including premarital counseling in the Atlanta metro area of Norcross, GA at the Pathway Center for Psychotherapy.
premarital counseling, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, anger, control issues, career issues, stress, lack of balance, individual therapy, couples therapy, counseling, psychotherapy, Atlanta GA, Gwinnett County, DeKalb County, Fulton County, Norcross GA.
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Adult Adoptee

My original birth certificate cost me five dollars. Arizona - state of my birth and adoption - enacted a law that allows adoptees to obtain their original birth certificate. The law was effective on January 1, 2022. I sent in the...

In the fog. A statement that used to mean waking up and not being able to see out my window. I grew up in California. A foggy morning meant that my carefully curled, fine hair would not last from my...

I've been thinking about adoption loss and grief. Specifically - ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, and uncertainty. Whew - quite a mouthful! In my mind's eye, I keep seeing stages of grief as clothing hangers that adoption loss hangs on like a...

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an effective therapy modality with a clunky name. I've been offering EMDR therapy for a few years now. I feel so privileged to have witnessed the deep work and change that the EMDR...

Adoption reunion, it's a tricky road. Filled with unexpected twists and turns and some jarring potholes. First, there is no "right" way to do reunion or a search for that matter. There is tons of information out there. I followed a...