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Who We Serve
Internationally Adoptive Families Child and Adolescent Adoptees Adult Adoptees Foster-Adopt Families Foster Children Kinship Adoption Birth Parent Support Our Adoption Related MissionPASS Center’s mission is to build and support a community of competent therapists and educators who provide the highest level of empowering and transformative therapeutic services and education to children, adolescents, adults, and families who have been impacted by the experience of adoption.
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Core Values and Competencies
All of our PASS Center Clinicians are passionate about supporting the community of adoption and have been trained in a relational, attachment focused approach. Our clinicians are TBRI informed, Dan Hughes Informed, and work and conceptualize from a systemic lens. What that means is that we work with families to be as healthy and connected as possible.
Systems Oriented: We believe that the ways that a person functions, relates, feels, and defines themselves is deeply intertwined with the complex relationships in their past, present, and future, as well as with one’s circumstantial realities, resources, and health.
Client Centered and Collaborative: We believe that all people have the ability to grow and change, and that your ideas about what is needed for that process to work are deeply important and need to be honored in the therapeutic and learning process.
Neuro-Focused: We are dedicated to using approaches and information that are up to date with current neuroscience research and the science of interpersonal neurobiology.
Attachment Focused: At Pass Center, we have a core belief that people are designed and wired to be in connected and emotionally safe relationships with other people. A deep understanding of attachment theory, and more importantly, how attachment theory informs effective work with families and couples, is paramount to the work we do in our center. All of our PASS center therapists, consultants, externs, and interns are trained in the area of attachment, have done extensive professional work in this area, and are required to seek ongoing training and education in researched- based attachment coursework and literature.
Inclusive: We believe that ALL people deserve the highest quality of support without fear of judgment or exclusion. No matter what the context of your connection to adoption, we will do our best to serve you or help you find another resource that will better serve your needs.
Solution- Focused: We believe that all therapeutic and educational work should be goal-focused and produce outcomes/experiential change. We don’t believe that therapy should be a life-long commitment!
Fun: We believe that the best learning and growth happens when we are feeling joy and connection.
All of our PASS Center Clinicians are passionate about supporting the community of adoption and have been trained in a relational, attachment focused approach. Our clinicians are TBRI informed, Dan Hughes Informed, and work and conceptualize from a systemic lens. What that means is that we work with families to be as healthy and connected as possible.
Systems Oriented: We believe that the ways that a person functions, relates, feels, and defines themselves is deeply intertwined with the complex relationships in their past, present, and future, as well as with one’s circumstantial realities, resources, and health.
Client Centered and Collaborative: We believe that all people have the ability to grow and change, and that your ideas about what is needed for that process to work are deeply important and need to be honored in the therapeutic and learning process.
Neuro-Focused: We are dedicated to using approaches and information that are up to date with current neuroscience research and the science of interpersonal neurobiology.
Attachment Focused: At Pass Center, we have a core belief that people are designed and wired to be in connected and emotionally safe relationships with other people. A deep understanding of attachment theory, and more importantly, how attachment theory informs effective work with families and couples, is paramount to the work we do in our center. All of our PASS center therapists, consultants, externs, and interns are trained in the area of attachment, have done extensive professional work in this area, and are required to seek ongoing training and education in researched- based attachment coursework and literature.
Inclusive: We believe that ALL people deserve the highest quality of support without fear of judgment or exclusion. No matter what the context of your connection to adoption, we will do our best to serve you or help you find another resource that will better serve your needs.
Solution- Focused: We believe that all therapeutic and educational work should be goal-focused and produce outcomes/experiential change. We don’t believe that therapy should be a life-long commitment!
Fun: We believe that the best learning and growth happens when we are feeling joy and connection.
Why you might contact PASS center for support:
- My child’s chronological age and emotional age are not matching up
- I am not experiencing the paternal or maternal feelings towards my child that I thought I would
- The bonding process is not going as easily as we thought it would
- I am an adult adoptee and I am nervous about potentially contacting birth family
- I am married to an adult adoptee and I think couple’s work would be helpful
- Things are going well in our journey but I want to proactively support my process with the use of a consultation to ensure that we are aware of all the potential needs our child currently has
- After we have brought in our newest child, the other children in our home are having trouble adjusting
- I am an adoptee of color but I have complex feelings about being affiliated with other people of my same race
- The adoption experience has put a strain on our couple relationship
- We are struggling with how to address covert and overt issues related to race in the life of our child
- I am an adult adoptee and I have an inkling that my adoption experience has influenced the ways that I relate in relationships and want to explore that
- Traditional parenting tools and approaches do not seem to be working with our child
- We are trying to figure out what is adoption and trauma related in our child’s process, versus what is natural developmental related, or temperament related
- Our child is struggling with frequent or long-lasting melt downs and does not seem to be able to regulate
- We are hoping to adopt in the future and want to consult about whether or not that is a good plan for our family