Adoptee-Therapists

Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker, a psychologist and transracial adoptee, has created the Adoptee-Therapist Directory, which includes “licensed U.S. mental health professionals who identify as adoptees and work with adoptees / adoptive families in a variety of public and private settings.” The directory lists providers in all fifty U.S. states. If you or someone you know would like to see an adoptee-therapist, this is a valuable and vital resource to the community.

Korean Adoptee Therapists

Kyle Lee, ASW
California Licensed Associate Social Worker
Workplace: Seoul Counseling Center
Providing Individual and Online Wellbeing Counseling sessions to residents in Korea.
Addressing topics such as: Anxiety, Depression, Gender Identity, LGBTQ+, Sex & Sexuality, Social Skills & Peer Relationships, Family Conflict, and Self-Esteem

Integrative Psychotherapy
Virtual and In-Person Sessions Available Now in Downtown Brooklyn!
We specialize in many different forms of therapy and are influenced by a number of disciplines. Our approach is largely informed by training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBCT).

Most importantly, we integrate the modalities that work best for you.

Adrienne Smith, LCSW
Adrienne Lee Smith, LCSW-R, LIMHP, CMSW is a licensed clinical social worker offering individual psychotherapy and clinical supervision in NY, NJ, NE, and FL via telehealth (video or phone)

Ages: Adolescents, adults, and seniors

Specializations: Transracial adoption, LGBTQIA+, depression, anxiety, grief, relational patterns, trauma, chronic health issues including long covid, life changes, racial identity, autism spectrum

Amanda Chance, LPC-S
Amanda Chance (Mandee), LPC-S, is a KAD based in Tucson, AZ, with over 10 years of experience in the field and a private practice specializing in trauma therapy. She accepts most insurances and private pay, offering both in-person and telehealth sessions for Arizona residents. Mandee works with families, individuals, and children, helping them overcome trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, aggression, family issues, and providing psychoeducation. She also has extensive experience working with military service members from the US Army and US Air Force.

Meggin (Nam) Holtz, LMSW
Korean Therapist NY State (virtual and in person sessions)
I am a Korean adopted person located in NYC. I provide therapy to youth, adolescents, families, and adults utilizing a strengths-based, trauma-informed, attachment, culturally and racially sensitive, and adoption-informed lens. As a transracial adoptee, I have a personal connection with adoption, and enjoy working with adoptees. I also hold a BFA in dance from SUNY Purchase and enjoy bringing creativity into the therapeutic space.

Kara-Myung Purves, MA, IMFT
I am an independently licensed marriage and family therapist and transracial Korean adoptee who provides in-person and telehealth services in the state of Ohio. I specialize in EMDR Therapy and trauma, as well as CBT and DBT.

I also have a Life Purpose Life Coach certification and provide virtual life coaching throughout the U.S., helping adoptees find meaning, purpose, and self-identity and cultivate a fulfilling life.

Grace Huntley Counseling
Grace Huntley, LMHC is a Korean adoptee and therapist located in New York who provides online therapy to individuals 18+ in NY, WA, CA, NJ, and FL. Her specialties include working with overachievers, perfectionists, transracial adoptees, parentified children, child of immigrants, and people pleasers. She is an out of pocket provider.

Bethany Kobus, LMHC
Bethany Kobus, LMHC is a KAD, currently treating clients in the Buffalo/Rochester region and other surrounding counties within New York State. She has over 10 years of experience in the field and in clinical settings. She currently works at a holistic group private practice, treating clients who are 18 years and older, for both in person and telehealth sessions. She accepts Independent Health, BCBS/High Mark, Univeira and self pay. Bethany treats individuals and families living with trauma, ADHD/ADD, depression, anxiety, anger management, bi-polar, grief, chronic pain and women’s wellness. Her therapeutic modalities are cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, poly vagal theory, eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) and strength based approaches.