65. EMDR for Adoption Trauma

Podcast: The EMDR Doctor Podcast · Dr Caroline Lloyd

Opublikowano: 2026-03-20

In this episode, we explore the complex nature of adoption trauma, and how EMDR and other therapies can support healing. Adoption can involve multiple layers of loss, identity challenges, and attachment disruptions—not just for adoptees, but for all members of the adoption triad (the adoptee, adoptive parents and birth parents). As well as early separation trauma, and ongoing feelings of difference and identity struggles, adoptees may also face additional challenges such as family complexity, infertility-related trauma in parents, and higher vulnerability to abuse. Adoptees are at increased risk of anxiety and depression, PTSD, disenfranchised grief and su...