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Joe Soll, the
author of Adoption Healing... a path
to recovery (one for adoptees and one for mothers who lost
children to adoption) 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.
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.
Joe has recently co-authored a mystery,
"Evil Exchange" with Lori
Paris.
Email: joesoll@adoptionhealing.com
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