This workshop is structured for adult adoptees who feel both interested in and prepared for exploring their understanding of how adoption trauma affects their interpersonal relationships, attachment system, intimacy inside of partnerships, and daily functioning. This workshop combines both psychoeducational components and therapeutic techniques to help adult adoptees deepen their understanding of their own internal and external attachment experience.
Cost: $45, students $40
Nov 16th
Held from 9:30- 11:30 am
All attendees are invited out to lunch afterward- We will choose a relatively nearby restaurant to go to.
Registration Required- Send Check to Encompass Adoptees at 122 S. Terrace Ave, Columbus OH 43204
Kristen Santel, MSW, LISW-S
Kristen is a Licensed Independent Social Worker Supervisor (LISW-S) through the State of Ohio Counselor and Social Worker Board. She is a Level II EMDR Psychotherapist with Advanced and Master Class Training in Attachment and Somatic Psychotherapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), certified hypnotherapist with American Society of Clinical Hypnotherapy, and a Certified Trauma Practitioner with the National Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children, as well as being trained in TF-CBT, CISM, and several other therapeutic modalities focusing on somatic psychotherapy and attachment. She uses a collaborative, integrative approach informed by Ego State and Internal Family Systems Therapy with clients to help them feel well supported and educated.
Kristen specializes in working with children, teens and adults suffering with complex trauma, PTSD, dissociative disorders, traumatic grief, relationship difficulties, and attachment issues. She also has much experience working with military, first responders and recent event traumas. Kristen is an adoptee and has a specialization in working with the adoption and foster community, adoptee/foster related challenges, and reparative attachment in both childhood and adulthood.
Kristen is the Clinical Director of Camp Lionheart, a free, week-long overnight summer camp for grieving children here in Central Ohio in the Hocking Hills. and presents psychoeducation at many conferences and symposiums.