Adoptees/Former Foster

Anna Heinzerling, LICSW

Biography

Anna is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience providing psychotherapy across the lifespan in neighborhood, residential, outpatient, and school-based settings. She currently provides therapy via telehealth. Anna specializes in working with individuals and families impacted by adoption, offering a thoughtful, trauma-informed approach to exploring identity, attachment, relationships, and life transitions.

Anna Heinzerling

Margot Hamlin, MSW, LGSW

Biography

I am the foster care program manager at EVOLVE Family Services. We do home study assessments and license both traditional and kinship foster providers as well as provide post-placement support. Our agency also does work in adoption and permanency, youth services, and pregnancy services. I am a transracial and transnational adoptee. I have previously held roles in supervised parenting, domestic violence case management and advocacy, and psychotherapy.

Address:
5850 Omaha Ave. N.
Stillwater, MN 55082

Margot Hamlin

Kelsey Bonkoski

Biography

I greatly enjoy my current role working as a mental health professional. I practice in the outpatient setting both in person and virtually. I work with children, youth, and families with a variety of diagnoses. I have the most experience working with individuals impacted by trauma, and I am trained in EMDR. I have experience professionally working with individuals and families who have experienced adoption and foster care, and I also have personal connections to adoption as my sister is an adult adoptee. 

Kelsey Bonkoski

Alyssa Kittleson, MSW, LICSW, LADC

Biography

I am an outpatient therapist, working with children, adolescents, and young adults. I have 5+ years of experience as a therapist, and I have experience working in day treatment and intensive outpatient settings. I utilize a strengths-based, attachment-based, and trauma-focused lens when working with clients and their families. I highly value collaboration with clients and their families together, as well as professional collaboration and consultation.

Alyssa Kittleson

Teresa Bina Zaffiro, MSW, LICSW

Biography

Hi! I am Teresa, a clinical social worker who is passionate about supporting adoptees, first/birth families and adoptive families. I am an adoptive parent with extensive experience supporting my child through relational trauma, transitions, neurodevelopment differences and sensory. I also have a long professional history of supporting family reunification, birth parent rights, open permanency set ups and culturally appropriate permanency outcomes.

Teresa Zaffiro

Joni Hillary, MSW, LGSW

Biography

HELP Program Specialist with over a decade of direct work experience in Child Welfare in five Midwestern states; specifically in foster care, adoption (foster care/ international/ domestic infant), foster care licensing, crisis intervention, and school social work. 

Address:
Foster Adopt Minnesota
2446 University Ave. W
Suite 140
Minneapolis, MN 55114

Joni Hillary

Lauren Lowe, MSW, LICSW

Biography

I am an outpatient therapist who is also a transracial adoptee. I work with populations ages 9-35 at this moment. I apply multi approaches and modalities such as ACT, DBT Skills, IFS, Interpersonal therapy, CBT/TF-CBT. I will be certified in PCIT fairly soon. I strive to be culturally competent and incorporate faiths of all backgrounds to support my clients. I also incorporate parents into my sessions with working with kids. I work with a lot of children and adults who have been been adopted or part of the child welfare system. I also will be trained in EMDR in the next few years.

Lauren Lowe

Wei "Rhouth" Zhou, MA, LPCC

She/Her/Hers
Biography

My vocational calling is to support the psychological and spiritual well-being of children, adolescents, and adults within adoptive, foster, and kinship family systems. My specialties involve working with individuals navigating adoption- and foster-related transitions, grief and loss, identity development, early and complex trauma, and attachment disruptions, as well as developmental differences and relational challenges. I approach this work with an understanding of how these experiences unfold across the lifespan and within the context of family and relational systems.

Wei Zhou

Merrily Young-Hye Sadlovsky, MSW, LICSW, LCSW

Biography

I am a Korean American transracial, transcultural, and transnational adoptee, a licensed clinical social worker, and the co-owner of a group mental health practice in Minneapolis. I also serve as the co-interim Director of Training and Clinical Supervision, supporting clinical trainees and pre-licensed therapists through developmentally informed supervision, training, and mentorship. In these roles, I intentionally balance direct clinical work with leadership and systems-level work to support both ethical practice and sustainable care.

Merrily Young-Hye Sadlovsky

Sandy Webber, MSW, LICSW

She/Her/Hers
Biography

Areas of Interest/Specialty: Adoption/Foster Care, Trans-Racial Adoption, Trauma, FASD, Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Loss, ADHD, Autism, Developmental or Learning Disability

Licensure: Licensed Independent Social Worker in the State of Minnesota, Board Approved Supervisor with the Minnesota Board of Social Work

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