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These sessions offer empathetic, experience, and education based listening, individualized advice based on you/your family’s situation, and one-on-one time with a caring, knowledgeable, open-minded adoption professional.
You will meet with Astrid, our founder and CEO. Read more about her by clicking on her photo.
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How do I begin?
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What is the cost?
Adoption Mosaic believes no adoptee should be denied services because of financial hardship. Adoptees seeking financial support should contact programs@adoptionmosaic.com.
These consultations are for not adopted folks such as extended adoptive family, non-adopted siblings, adoptive parents, partners of an adoptee, and biological children of adoptees.
Possible session topics:
You will begin with a free 15 min meeting with Astrid to do some light introductions and review the main topics that you would like to discuss. If you decide to move forward, then you start with a package of three sessions. We have found that it takes at least three visits to establish our working relationship and to dive into the topic(s) you are wanting to discuss. After our initial three meetings, if you decide to continue, we can decide on a schedule that works best for you and your needs.
If you want to pause after you have completed our initial package, you can always email us if you would like to start up again after some time has passed and we will be happy to work with you.
Our constellation member consultation package starts at $500* for three sessions. All sessions after that are $150 an hour.
Possible topics:
Family consultations begin with free 15 min meetings between Astrid and the various parties involved, whether that is the adoptee, one or more parents, siblings, significant others, and loved ones. These meetings are to get a better sense of the kind of support the situation may call for and can be done in a combination of meeting both separately and jointly.
Family consultations begin with a package of five sessions. After the initial meeting, Astrid will develop a tailored plan for the clients.
Family consultations start at $800* for five sessions. All sessions after that are $150 an hour.
Jennifer specializes in addressing these topics:
You will begin with a free 15 min meeting with Jennifer to do some light introductions and review the main topics that you would like to discuss. If you decide to move forward, then we start you with a package of three sessions. We have found that it takes at least three visits to establish our working relationship and to dive into the topic(s) you are wanting to discuss. After our initial three meetings, if you decide to continue, we can decide on a schedule that works best for you and your needs.
If you want to pause after you have completed our initial package, you can always email us if you would like to start up again after some time has passed and we will be happy to work with you.
Our individual consultation package starts at $500* for three sessions. All sessions after that are $150 an hour.
Jennifer specializes in addressing these topics:
Family consultations begin with a free 15 min meeting between Jennifer and the various parties involved, whether that is the adoptee, one or more parents, siblings, significant others, and loved ones. These meetings are to get a better sense of the kind of support the situation may call for and can be done in a combination of meeting both separately and jointly. Family consultations begin with a package of five sessions. After the initial meeting, Jennifer will develop a tailored plan for the clients.
Family consultations starts at $500* for three sessions. All sessions after that are $150 an hour.
Astrid Castro (she/her/hers) is the founder and CEO of Adoption Mosaic. Her life-long interest in adoption is rooted in her own adoption at the age of four from Colombia (along with her older sister). Astrid has been in reunion with her birth family in Colombia since December 2011. Read about Astrid’s journey of searching and finding her birth mother in The Oregonian Part 1 and Part 2.
Astrid has a degree in sociology with an emphasis in adoption. Since 1992, she has traveled the country to lead youth groups, present workshops on transracial parenting, how to talk with children about adoption, and various other workshops focusing on adoption. Prior to creating Adoption Mosaic, Astrid worked in both the private and public sectors of various adoption organizations such as the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center (ORPARC), Holt International and Rocky Mountain Adoption Exchange, and VIDA (while living in Italy).
She has also sat on several boards of directors (North American Council on Adoptable Children, Open Adoption and Family Services, Northwest Adoptive Families Association, Spoon Foundation) to support the adoption community.
Astrid has also been featured on many podcasts and contributed a chapter to the anthology, Parenting as Adoptees. She has also helped to develop materials such as Adoption in the Movies, and Adoptive Parent Training: Developing Communication Skills, an innovative, evidence-based, training DVD.
Astrid’s personal experiences as an adoptee, a woman of color, and growing up in a white family and community, fuel her professional path to helping others. She is aware of the benefit of post-adoption services for individuals and their families and seeks to bring these services to the adoption community.
When Astrid is not working she loves training for half marathons, firing up her outdoor pizza oven and sharing homemade pizza with family and friends and biking with her little dogs, Guapo and Baci. Her absolute favorite thing is to enjoy the adventures of life with her amazing daughter.
Jennifer Poole was adopted as an infant in a closed adoption. She holds a Masters Degree in Interfaith Pastoral Counseling, where she wrote her thesis on “Openness in Adoption as an Opportunity for Spiritual Growth”. It was during this time, in 2001, that she initiated her reunion with her birth mother and later with her birth father.
Passionate about supporting families, she is certified in Hand in Hand Parenting, Redirecting Children’s Behavior, the Enneagram, and Whole Person Design Life Coaching. Drawing from a large tool box which includes continuing education in Mindfulness, High Conflict Diversion, ADHD, ACES, Attachment Theory and Trauma Informed Care, Jennifer provides counseling and coaching to help families move from conflict to the connection they seek.
She currently lives in Oregon with her husband. Together they have 4 grown children.