Trauma Informed Adoption Care Lantern

Adoption is often framed as a beautiful act of love, and it can be. But for many adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families, the experience carries layers of loss, confusion, and unspoken pain. I have worked with families in Chattanooga and beyond who came to adoption with high hopes and found themselves struggling with behaviors they did not understand. A child who refuses to be held. A teenager who tests every boundary until the household feels like a war zone. A birth