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Joe Soll, the
author of Adoption Healing... a path to
recovery (one
for adoptees ,one for mothers who lost
children to adoption, and one for both)
and co-author of Evil
Exchange and Fatal
Flight is a diplomate psychotherapist
and lecturer internationally recognized as
an expert in adoption related issues and a
former adjunct professor of social work at
Fordham University Graduate School. He is
director and co-founder of Adoption
Crossroads in New York City, a non-profit
organization that helps
reunite and gives support to adoptees,
original parents and those who have
adopted.
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Adoption Crossroads is affiliated with
more than 450 mental health institutions
and adoption search and
support groups in eight countries,
representing more than 500,000 individuals
whose lives have been affected by
adoption. Adoption Crossroads is also
dedicated to educating the public about
adoption issues, preserving families and
reforming current adoption practices.
The director and founder of the Adoption
Counseling Center in New York City, Mr.
Soll is also co-organizer and co-chair of
the New York State Adoption Agency Task
Force; a member of Matilda Cuomo's 1993
Advisory Council on the “Adoption Option”;
conference chair and board member of the
American Adoption Congress, and a former
trustee of the International Soundex
Reunion Registry. He's a fellow of the
American Orthopsychiatric Association, the
American Association of Grief Counselors,
and a member of the Council on Social Work
Education, the National Association of
Social Workers and the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences .
Since 1989, Mr. Soll has organized
and coordinated eight international mental
health conferences on adoption attended by
mental health professionals. He has been
an expert witness in court about adoption
related issues and has lectured widely at
adoption agencies, social work schools,
mental health facilities and mental health
conferences in the U.S. and Canada.
Mr. Soll has appeared on radio and
television more than 300 times, given more
than 130 lectures on adoption related
issues and has been featured or quoted in
more than three dozen newspapers, books
and magazines. In 1994 he was portrayed as
a therapist in the NBC made-for-TV movie
about adoption, The Other Mother. He
recently played himself in the HBO
original movie Reno Finds Her Mom. He was
featured in the 2001 Telly Award winning
Global Japan documentary, “Adoption
Therapist: Joe Soll”
His own story as an adoptee has been
presented more than thirty times on
Unsolved Mysteries. He has walked the 250
miles from New York City to Washington,
D.C. six times to create public awareness
of the need for adoption reform. He
resides in Congers, NY and maintains an
office in New York City.
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