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Adoption can be a wonderful way to build a family.  It can also be challenging.  
Adoption Counseling & Educational Services (ACES) is an affiliation of mental health
practitioners united in the goal of providing quality services for adoptive families.  

In addition to our counselors' academic credentials and training,
each therapist
affiliated with ACES, has earned a one year post-graduate certificate in
Therapy with Adoptive Families
.   

ACES' therapists respect and acknowledge that each family is unique.  We
encourage parents to draw on their strengths and abilities while we help children
explore grief, loss, attachment and identity issues.  Our philosophy is one of helping
families to move from coping with life, to living life joyously.

While the greater Portland area does have some excellent therapists, there are
very few who have been trained specifically in adoption. Most of our therapists are

able to accept insurance.  All of our therapists received extensive training from
International Adoption Trainer and Author Deborah D. Gray.  

                   Some of Our Therapists are Adoptive Parents;   
                          All Have Been Touched By Adoption

                Telephone contact information is available on the locations page.

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Adoption Counseling & Educational Services