Group Sessions for Adult Adoptees

The Adoptee Sanctuary

A Therapeutic Weekly Online Community
for Adult Adoptees

For just $30/week

For many adult adoptees, life can carry a quiet ache that is difficult to explain – a feeling of never fully fitting in, of struggling to belong, or feeling disconnected from yourself, from others, and from the world around you.

Many adoptees grow up believing there is something inherently wrong with them, without realising that what they are experiencing are the deep, pre-verbal impacts of relinquishment, separation trauma, attachment wounds, identity loss, and survival adaptations formed long before they had words to understand them.

These wounds frequently show up later in life as anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, people-pleasing, hypervigilance, emotional overwhelm, perfectionism, chronic shame, or feeling emotionally numb.

Beneath it all is a profound longing to feel safe, seen, loved, and truly understood.

As an adult adoptee myself,

I understand this journey deeply. For much of my life, I searched to understand what was “wrong” with me. That search led me into almost four decades of learning, self-healing, and then supporting others in their healing journeys.

I now understand that the struggles I carried were not personal failings, but the natural responses of a nervous system shaped by early separation.

Everything changed when I stopped looking outward for answers and instead committed to going within.

From Survival to Self-Connection

Through a dedicated, consistent practice of therapeutic techniques such as clinical hypnotherapy, somatic EFT tapping, meditation, and creative visualisation, I gently transformed my own deeply held adoption trauma from the inside out.

This shift was not accidental. It was the direct result of my devotion to healing and my refusal to settle for a life lived in survival mode.

Today, I live in a state of embodied joy, expansion, and internal peace that once felt completely impossible.

Because I have walked this path and built the bridge myself, I am uniquely equipped to hold a safe, proven space for you – guiding you with that same commitment to your own beautiful results.

The Oasis

Welcome to The Adoptee Sanctuary

A beautiful online oasis open to all adult adoptees, both men and women, who are ready to step out of the daily survival fog and drop into a space of profound comfort, resonance, and collective care.

Each session is intentionally designed to feel like stepping into my private therapy room for an hour of nurturing, compassionate care.

Drawing from 29 years of experience as a trauma therapist, my approach is deeply integrative – blending modern neuroscience, nervous system regulation, subconscious healing, clinical hypnotherapy, EFT tapping, and trauma-informed therapeutic support.

A Gentle Space to Rest, Heal & Belong

For just $30 week, you’ll become part of a compassionate community created exclusively for adult adoptees. Each week, you’ll be guided through therapeutic practices designed to help regulate your nervous system, reconnect with yourself, and experience healing alongside others who simply understand.

Membership Includes

Weekly 60-minute live online Sanctuary Session
Join Karen and fellow adult adoptees in a safe, supportive and trauma-informed online gathering each week.
Clinical Hypnosis
Guided therapeutic hypnosis to promote relaxation, emotional healing, self-compassion and subconscious change.
Somatic EFT Tapping
Body-based techniques that gently calm the nervous system and help reduce emotional stress.
Trauma-Informed Psychoeducation
Learn how adoption experiences can influence the nervous system, identity, attachment, emotions and relationships.
Guided Meditation & Nervous System Regulation
Simple restorative practices to help you feel calmer, more grounded and connected.
Replay Access
Can't attend live? Catch up with the session replay at a time that suits you.
A Community That Understands
Connect with other adult adoptees in a compassionate environment where there's no need to explain your lived experience.
No Pressure to Participate
Your camera can remain off, you don't have to speak, and you're welcome to simply listen whenever you need.
Cancel Anytime
No lock-in contracts or long-term commitments. Stay for as long as the Sanctuary supports your healing journey.

Imagine if each week you gave yourself just one hour to...

Calm your nervous system

Feel understood without having to explain

Learn practical tools for everyday life

Experience restorative clinical hypnosis

Connect with others who share a similar lived experience

Leave feeling lighter, calmer and more grounded

Sometimes the greatest healing begins
with simply knowing you're not alone.

This sanctuary is entirely different.

This is not a traditional support group centred around talking through the issues of adoption. Nor is it a space where you have to dig up past trauma.

It is a weekly restorative space for you to breathe, rest, and receive healing.

You do not need to share your story. You do not need to turn your camera on. You are here to simply show up, exhale, and receive a beautiful, deeply nurturing therapeutic hypnosis session from the quiet comfort of your own home.

The Sanctuary is where you come to gently remind your body and mind what peace actually feels like – helping you step out of a constant state of alert and guiding your nervous system home to its natural state of ease.

The Power of Group Healing

There is an incredible energy, a shared momentum, and a deeper shift that happens when we gather for group subconscious work.

Group healing can be profoundly powerful. There is something deeply therapeutic about sitting in a sacred space with others who share your lived experience – being witnessed without needing to explain yourself, feeling less alone in your story, and allowing restoration to happen in true connection.

You do not have to figure out why you are struggling, and you do not need to force a change.

You simply show up, sink in, and let go.

This is one hour a week that retrains your nervous system for peace – without you having to try so hard.

It is your weekly reset button.

Your Weekly Sanctuary Experience

Every session is designed as a gentle, supportive container where I combine my trauma-informed practice and my own lived journey to hold space for you.

Every gathering will organically unfold according to what feels most needed and supportive for the group.

This Sanctuary is a constantly evolving space. I am continually bringing fresh, evidence-based techniques and emerging neuroscience research into our weekly sessions, ensuring the support you receive is current, deeply informed, and expanding.

There is no pressure to interact, talk, or even turn your camera on.

You are invited to completely surrender the weight you carry as you are guided through:

Empowering Psychoeducation

Illuminating insights into trauma, neuroscience, adoption trauma, and nervous system regulation.

By understanding your body’s subconscious survival responses, you can begin to release self-blame, transform the deep imprints of adoption-specific trauma, and gently navigate your way back to a state of internal balance – clearing the path to reconnecting with your wise, authentic self.

Somatic EFT Tapping

Simple, body-centred sequences to downregulate the amygdala, reduce emotional stress, and gently restore a deep state of inner calm.

By actively soothing the body’s survival response, this practice builds an essential foundation of safety in your nervous system – allowing you to safely explore themes of identity, belonging, grief, and attachment, while consciously anchoring empowering new feelings of self-worth.

EFT is a gentle, empowering tool for lifelong emotional healing.

Restorative Group Hypnosis

Here, we begin to reclaim a deep sense of embodied safety through soft journeys involving guided imagery, deep relaxation, and subconscious reprogramming.

Because hypnosis works beneath the surface of conscious thinking – where early experiences, pre-verbal imprints, and unconscious beliefs are stored – it acts as a deeply reparative modality that allows the body and mind to reconnect with safety, self-trust, and a cohesive sense of identity.

In this soft, relaxed state, you remain fully aware and in control at all times as we access deep-seated emotional patterns, quiet old survival alarms, connect with your inner child, and gently rewire your mind’s blueprint for safety, worth, and true belonging.

Resonant Rest

The quiet, powerful validation of simply being in an inclusive space with other adult adoptees who share your lived experience.

Here, your survival adaptations are respected for the protective mechanisms they are. You are deeply understood, and no explanations are ever required.

It is a dedicated window of time to simply be – transforming quiet isolation into a deeply empowered sense of self.

What clients often say

That they feel safe, seen and understood. That the space is warm, non-judgmental and deeply respectful. That the work is gentle and powerful at once, grounded in science, open to spirit, and that it helps them feel like themselves again.

"I am very grateful to attend these group sessions. I found it comforting to be connected with others whose situations are so similar to mine."

"The experience was created specifically for people like me, that is, an adoptee who carries layers of emotion, identity confusion, and old wounds that are hard to explain to myself, let alone others. The moment I arrived, the space felt safe, gentle, and grounded. "

"It was also lovely to share my feelings with a group of women that understand the trauma of adoption and I know that I am not alone. I would highly recommend these sessions and would love to do more in the future. Thanks so much for your support, Karen."

"Adoption for me is something that is always there and if I give it attention, I feel it more. I really want to heal and not have it affect me so much. I love how Karen facilitated these sessions – she is so calm, caring and kind. As a fellow adoptee she understands this journey completely, and the combination of her lived experience with her therapeutic skills is very powerful. Only someone with lived experience can help in the deep way she offers guidance and tools. I really enjoyed these groups and the way they helped me calm my emotions."

"Being surrounded by other adoptees was unexpectedly powerful. I didn’t have to explain anything; everyone simply understood. There was unspoken sense of shared experience with the other participants that made the whole experience feel even more meaningful. I left the session feeling lighter, clearer and more connected to myself."

"Karen's calm and empathetic holding of our group allowed us to feel safe and understood. Karen's own lived experience as an adoptee supported our groups connection with authenticity. I am grateful for the opportunity to experience new tools Karen introduced to us to support the emotional and traumatic road of being a product of forced adoption."

"Karen created a safe, compassionate and non-judgemental space where participants could openly explore the complex layers of adoption – including identity, grief, connection and belonging."

"Please keep these groups going, I want to keep coming. These groups have changed my life. As an adoptee I already have abandonment issues so the thought of these groups not continuing is very triggering for me. I come here and see in the eyes of everyone else who walks in this room, that they feel the same things as me, we understand each other."

Step Into the Lightness of Your Being

My approach is gentle, intuitive, and entirely non-directive.

I respect your individual experience and your nervous system’s capacity. Whether you are navigating your own identity, relational patterns, or the waves of search and reunion, this space works gently with your system to reduce internal tension and strengthen self-trust over time.

By gathering in a structured weekly rhythm, we create a predictable sanctuary where your nervous system can finally drop its guard and turn down the baseline inner alarm of anxiety or displacement.

This regular space allows you to gently release the deep emotional imprints and physical tension stored within your body. It can help prevent the accumulated pressure-cooker effect of daily life, so we can focus purely on deep restorative relaxation, neural healing, and a beautiful reintegration of your authentic self.

My ultimate vision

My ultimate vision for this community is to offer a consistent, ongoing place of safety, belonging, and restoration for adoptees who may have spent much of their lives feeling emotionally alone.

These sessions have been intentionally created to be a fraction of the cost of individual therapy sessions, making regular, premium therapeutic support beautifully accessible.

If you are ready to connect with a community that understands, you are warmly welcome here.

Exactly as you are.

Weekly Sanctuary Membership

If you cannot make the session live,
the replay is just as effective and will be
waiting for you in our private group.

(On occasions, sessions may be pre-recorded and uploaded into our private group, ready for your weekly session)

$ 30 week

Weekly Live Online Sanctuary
Trauma Therapist with 29 Years' Experience
Clinical Hypnosis
Somatic EFT Tapping
Guided Meditation
Trauma-Informed Education
Replay Access
Safe Adoptee Community
Camera Optional
Cancel Anytime

Your healing doesn't have to happen alone.

Come exactly as you are. Slide off your shoes, get comfortable, quiet your mind, and allow this space to become a sanctuary for your nervous system – a place that finally feels like home.

LOVE & LIGHT

Karen

Note: A monthly membership option will also be available in the near future for those wishing to anchor into this community as an ongoing therapeutic healing lifestyle.