therapy has been a lifelong process from family therapy that was basically parent-teacher meetings, to therapists who were ABA-heavy (that has now been discredited by the AMA thankfully, as it is extremely harmful to autistic and ADHD people like myself) I have a therapist currently who is fantastic, adoption-competent, and definitely more easy to talk to, compared to the ABA-centric ones I had in the past who also never addressed my adoption trauma they saw my trauma responses as "behaviors". My current therapist is trauma-informed too which is fantastic!! (I've had other trauma that isn't adoption-specific) A thing I use as therapy when I have time between meetings is going to the ice rink and skating and shooting a few pucks around! (At least in the winter) I love the sound of a hockey puck hitting a hockey stick-- it's music to my ears!! and I listen to music and journal as well!! I also go and pet cats at the animal shelter and pets-mart as a way to calm myself as cats are my favorite animals! their purring is also calming! ❤️
therapy has been a lifelong process from family therapy that was basically parent-teacher meetings, to therapists who were ABA-heavy (that has now been discredited by the AMA thankfully, as it is extremely harmful to autistic and ADHD people like myself) I have a therapist currently who is fantastic, adoption-competent, and definitely more easy to talk to, compared to the ABA-centric ones I had in the past who also never addressed my adoption trauma they saw my trauma responses as "behaviors". My current therapist is trauma-informed too which is fantastic!! (I've had other trauma that isn't adoption-specific) A thing I use as therapy when I have time between meetings is going to the ice rink and skating and shooting a few pucks around! (At least in the winter) I love the sound of a hockey puck hitting a hockey stick-- it's music to my ears!! and I listen to music and journal as well!! I also go and pet cats at the animal shelter and pets-mart as a way to calm myself as cats are my favorite animals! their purring is also calming! ❤️