IFS and Adoptees with Kathy Mackechney

On today's podcast I chat with Kathy Mackechney, who wrote a chapter in Altogether Us.

Kathy is a relinquishee-adoptee whose purpose is helping other adoptees heal the burdens of having been relinquished, or removed, and adopted. She is a Level-3 trained, IFS-certified therapist and consultant wtih a private practice in Denver.

We talk about:

• Helping adoptees feel heard and understood
• Shifting language from adoption-industry and adoptive-parent-centric perspective to language that centers the experience of the person who was relinquished, and therefore needed to be adopted- hence the term 'relinquishee' or 'survivor of infant-mother separation'
• Educating 'biologicals' about why adoptees should be recognized as a marginalized group
• Why 'Not all Parts Get Adopted"
• How Self gets exiled
• Importance of using Implicit Direct Access
• Possible Parts who may be found (Not me, Dismissed, sense of being alone, Relationship stressors, Control, Self doubt, Second quessing).

You can find out more about Kathy and her "Not all Parts get Adopted" workshop here: Adoptee Therapy, LLC

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Purchase "Altogether Us" here:  Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends: Riemersma, Jenna, Schwartz, Dr. Richard: 9781734958423: Amazon.com: Books