Adoption

Many people who were adopted carry powerful questions about identity, belonging, and the impact of early separation from their birth mother. Even when adoption has been loving and secure, this early loss can leave emotional traces that are hard to understand. It’s common for adoptees to feel sensitive to rejection, struggle with loneliness, or live with a sense of not being quite “enough.” These feelings have roots in that first, unspoken rupture.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapy offers a reflective space to explore these experiences. Working with a therapist who understands attachment issues, early maternal loss, and adoption can help you connect past experiences with current emotions and relationship patterns. This makes it easier to understand why certain feelings return, and how early adoption trauma still shapes your sense of self today.

For twin adoptees — whether brought up together or separately — these emotional themes can become even more layered. Alongside the loss of the birth mother, there may be complex feelings about the twin relationship itself. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy offers a safe and containing space to explore these intertwined experiences and to make sense of your own story at a pace that feels manageable.

As a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with experience in adoption-related issues, early loss, and twin dynamics, I offer a steady and supportive space to work through these feelings. Together we can explore how the past has shaped your inner world and help you develop a better sense of yourself as being capable of love and being loved.

If you are affected by adoption, please get in touch.

Further information can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section of the website.