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  • Services & Fees
    • Adoptee Counseling
    • Parent/Caregiver Counseling & Consultation
    • Training for Professionals
    • Speaker on Adoption Topics
    • Colleague Consultation
    • Fees & Insurance
  • About Me
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    • Media Kit
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  • Resources
    • On-Demand Adoption Courses (NEW!)
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    • Adoptee Therapist Directory
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      • Casey Conquers Bedtime
      • Marie Discovers Her Superpowers
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Nice Doesn’t Always Mean Safe: Why Adoptees Need More Than Kindness to Thrive

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | June 9, 2025

Are you surrounding yourself with people who are nice—or people who are safe? It’s a question that often stops people in their tracks. For adoptees, especially those in transracial families,…

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Beyond Words: How Unspoken Moments Create the Deepest Opportunities for Healing

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | May 19, 2025

There is a particular kind of comfort that comes from being understood without explanation. As an adoptee and a psychologist, I’ve seen firsthand how powerful this unspoken understanding can be…

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Why Does Therapy Cost So Much?

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | April 18, 2025

One of the most common—and completely understandable—questions I hear is: “Why does therapy cost so much?” It’s a question I welcome, because the answer helps humanize therapists and sheds light…

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“Did You Always Know?” and Other Personal Questions that Shouldn’t Be Asked of Adoptees or Trans/Non-binary Folx

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | March 31, 2025

An adoptee reflects on the weird questions people ask trans and non-binary folks—and how familiar they sound. As an adopted person, I’ve spent my life navigating an oddly specific kind…

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Chocolate, Starfish & Your Genuine Worth: A Crucial Lesson Learned as an Adoptee

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | January 31, 2024

As adoptees, we often have a strong desire to contribute to the world in significant ways in order to prove the worth of our existence to others. This frequently manifests…

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The Bedtime Narrative for Kids Who Struggle with Sleep Anxiety

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | April 11, 2023

Throughout the years, I’ve had a number of requests for support from adoptive parents who are struggling with their child’s sleep anxiety. It’s an all-too-familiar scenario: “They refuse to let…

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Seven Hidden Harms in Performative Racial Allyship

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | March 26, 2021

If you are white, it may be easy to view performative racial allyship as benign. It’s short-lived and superficial nature does not look much different from other trends – a…

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Why “I’m Ready to Listen” is Not the Beginning of Your Allyship

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | June 8, 2020

It’s inevitable. Every time there is a major headline involving the murder of an unarmed Black person at the hands of a law enforcement officer, I see the same pattern…

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The Single Item that Made Me Understand Racism

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | November 11, 2019

It was a Band-Aid. Well, not actually a Band-Aid – just the image of a Band-Aid. So small, yet so damaging. It changed my life – the entire way I…

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What We Ask of You

By Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker | April 19, 2019

Understand that we do not ask you to hear our voices because we are grieving. We ask you to hear our voices because we are exhausted from grieving. Biologicals cannot…

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