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PESI 2025 Play Therapy Summit: Play Therapy for Adoptive Children and Families: Navigating the Seven Core Issues in Adoption to Create Healthy Self-Expression, Attachment &Trauma Healing
Virtual WebinarAdoption introduces unique emotional and behavioral complexities that significantly shape a child's needs and experiences. For clinicians working with adopted children, understanding the Seven Core Issues in Adoption—loss, rejection, guilt/shame, grief, identity, intimacy, and mastery/control—is essential for effective intervention. Join Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker, PsyD, a licensed psychologist, international/transracial adoptee, and adoptive parent, alongside Sabra Starnes,…
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From Blow-Up to Bonding: Finding the Balance of Attachment-Focused Discipline in Adoption
Our Savior's Lutheran Church 909 W. 33rd Street, Sioux Falls, SD, United StatesKeynote speaker for conference hosted by Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota. How can you turn moments of struggle into moments of connection? Discover how brain development, implicit memories, and the “6 F’s” (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Friend, Fidget, Flop) can influence your adoptive or foster child’s reactions to traditional methods of discipline, and develop compassionate,…
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Colorado Department of Labor & Employment: Lunch & Learn Panel Member
Colorado Department of Labor & EducationDr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker will be featured as a panel member during the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment's Employee Lunch and Learn event. The discussion will focus on the topic of anger with questions addressing stereotypes, impacts, and healthy ways to manage anger in BIPOC populations.
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Keynote: From Struggles to Superpowers: Reframing the Seven Core Issues in Adoption
PACT Family Camp Riverhouse Lodge, Bend, OR, United StatesPACT Family Camp Keynote Presentation. The seven core issues in adoption are often perceived as barriers to an adoptee’s ability to be healthy and successful. But what if we viewed these issues – loss, rejection, guilt/shame, grief, identity, intimacy, and control – on a spectrum that ranges from struggle to strength? Join Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker…
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Workshop: Launching: Supporting Your Teen Through Early Adulthood
PACT Family Camp Riverhouse Lodge, Bend, OR, United StatesPACT Family Camp Breakout Presentation. Adoption is a lifelong journey, and adopted individuals face different challenges during each stage of life. The late adolescent and early adult years offer unique opportunities for growth, independence, and identity formation, but also create new obstacles as life experiences expand beyond the shelter of the familiar. Build your knowledge…
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Webinar: Navigating First Family Connections in Adoption
Virtual WebinarHosted by Hudson Valley Professional Development for New York psychologists seeking continuing education credits. Navigating the complexities of biological relationships can be a sensitive and challenging process for many adoptees. Adoptees may seek out connections with their first family members for a variety of reasons, and as adoption professionals, it is crucial to provide a…
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Transracial Adoption Readiness: An Identity Needs Hierarchy
Virtual WebinarHosted by Hudson Valley Professional Development for New York mental health providers seeking continuing education credits. Maintaining the racial and cultural identity of fostered and adopted youth of color in transracial placements is crucial to supporting their lifelong mental health, but it can be difficult to determine how those needs will be met by caregivers who…
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Webinar: Navigating First Family Connections in Adoption
Virtual WebinarHosted by The Catalyst Center for California mental health providers seeking continuing education credits. Navigating the complexities of biological relationships can be a sensitive and challenging process for many adoptees. Adoptees may seek out connections with their first family members for a variety of reasons, and as adoption professionals, it is crucial to provide a…
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UMOJA MN: Blow-Up to Bonding: Trauma, Behavior, and Attachment-Focused Discipline
Bloomington, MinnesotaKeynote for UMOJA MN hosted by EVOLVE Family Services. How can you turn moments of struggle into moments of connection? This session will unpack how the brain, implicit memories, and the “6 F’s” (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Friend, Fidget, Flop) shape a child’s trauma reactions. You’ll learn simple, compassionate strategies to turn challenging moments into opportunities…
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Bringing Race Into the Room: Supporting Racial Attachment Needs with Transracially Adoptive Students and Families
Virtual WebinarVirtual training event for Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School staff members. Join Dr. Chaitra Wirta-Leiker for an enlightening discussion addressing the complex dynamics of transracial adoption. Through the lens of the seven core issues in adoption combined with her groundbreaking model of the racial and cultural identity needs of transracial adoptees, she will provide compassionate and…
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