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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. 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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