Description
December 16, 2025 | 1:00-2:30pm
Virtual via Zoom
Description:
The Wound Beneath: Understanding Addiction through the Lens of Adoption offers a focused exploration of how early separation, attachment loss, and identity disruption can shape the experiences of adult adoptees in recovery. Through a trauma-informed and adoption-sensitive lens, participants will consider how these early wounds influence patterns of coping and connection. The training integrates clinical insight with lived experience, offering practical tools and perspective for professionals supporting adoptees impacted by addiction.
Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Describe key adoption-related themes, losses, and identity challenges of adoptees
2. Recognize how attachment disruptions can impact early and ongoing experiences in sobriety.
3. Apply an adoption-sensitive and trauma-informed perspective when supporting adult adoptees affected by addiction.
4. Gain insight from voices of lived experience to deepen understanding and empathy in practice
Presenter:
Lisa “LC” Coppola, LCPC, LMHC, M.Ed., is a licensed therapist, writer, educator, and creator of the Voices Unheard Storytelling Program. She is the founder of Coppola Counseling & Consultation, LLC, based in South Portland, Maine, and brings lived experience as an adoptee in long-term recovery from addiction. LC specializes in the intersection of adoption and addiction. Her writing has appeared in Severance Magazine, Chicago Story Press, The Fix, and Adoptees Voices. In 2022, she authored Voices Unheard: A Reflective Journal for Adult Adoptees.
Contact hours:
1.5 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals
1.5 category I contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1.5 contact hours for drug and alcohol counselors. This course has been approved by CCSME, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712. CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
1.5 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
