Adoption Related Anxiety Therapy Tide

Adoption-Related Anxiety Therapy: A Guide for the Adoption Triad

@adoptionrelatedanxietyjournal · 26 October 2026

When I first sat down with a young woman who had been adopted as an infant, she told me that the worst part of her anxiety was the silence. She could not name what she felt, and she did not know anyone else who felt it either. Her story is not unusual. For many people touched by adoption, anxiety is not just worry about a test or a job interview. It is a deeper, more tangled kind of fear that surfaces around identity, belonging, and the unknown pieces of a personal history.