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Joe Soll, t he
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.
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 seven
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.
Email: adoptionhealing@earthlink.net
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