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Marie Dolfi, LCSW

Marie Dolfi, LCSW is a therapist who works with adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. Let's work together to improve your life's journey.

For over 25 years Marie Dolfi has extensively studied relinquishment and adoption issues by attending trainings, reading, and most importantly learning from adoption triad members themselves. Marie’s services include counseling adoption triad members in her private practice, adoption support group leader, adoption speaker, advocacy, and board member for adoption organizations. To learn more about Marie visit https://mariedolfi.com/about/

11/21/2025

Looking for information on healing trauma? Janina Fisher’s book Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists. This book is an excellent resource providing information on how trauma affects the brain and body, as well as worksheets to support the healing journey. Some of the chapters are: understanding the traumatized brain, recovering from self-destructive patterns of coping, and trauma-related fragmentation and dissociation. For more information on adoption traumas, visit my blog posts at https://mariedolfi.com/blog/

06/19/2025

I’m excited to share my new blog post, Adoption Traumas and Complex PTSD, which explores the connection between adoption traumas, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, and C-PTSD symptoms experienced by adoption triad members. https://mariedolfi.com/adoption-educational/adoption-traumas-and-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder/

01/27/2025

There are openings in the adult adoptee reunion support group. The support group meets on the first Thursday of the month. Group members must live in the NY Capital Region so they can attend the meetings in Person. New members must be interviewed before attending to ss if the group is a good fit. Call 518-281-8884 for more information or visit https://mariedolfi.com/adoption-support-groups/

01/21/2025

I’m very excited to be presenting information on Healing Adoption Traumas at the Adoption Network Cleveland Conference on March 22, 2025. For more information visit https://www.adoptionnetwork.org/conference/

10/17/2024

Utilizing both Top-down and Bottom-Up Therapies is often what is needed to help adoption triad members heal from adoption traumas.

09/09/2024

There are openings in the adult adopted person support group. The support group meets on the first Thursday of the month. Group members must live in the NY Capital Region so they can attend the meetings in person. New members must be interviewed prior to attending to see if the group is a good fit. Call 518-281-8884 for more information or visit For more information visit
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07/09/2024

Visit my new blog post Stress Management Techniques for Healing Trauma to learn about stress management and a wide variety of calming exercises. The blog post was written specifically for adoption triad members because most trauma healing information does not recognize relinquishment and adoption experiences as being traumatic. https://mariedolfi.com/adoption-educational/stress-management-techniques-for-healing-trauma/

02/23/2024

Looking for information on healing their adoption traumas? Complex post-traumatic stress disorder 3-stage treatment approach to healing from traumas can be applied to healing adoption traumas. For information on adoption issues and trauma read my blog post Core Issues of Adoption: An Adoption Trauma Paradigm https://mariedolfi.com/adoption-educational/core-issues-of-adoption-a-trauma-paradigm/ traumas adoption traumas healing counseling PTSD

02/14/2024

A trauma perspective is required to understand adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents’ core issues of loss, rejection, grief, identity, control, intimacy, guilt/shame, entitlement, abandonment, fitting-in, loyalty, and claiming. The core issues are trauma symptoms because long after the adoption experience(s), the core issues impact how a person views themselves and their world. A trauma-informed approach understands talking about the issues is often not enough to create change. Trauma-focused therapy is needed to help a person heal. To learn more, visit my blog post at https://mariedolfi.com/adoption-educational/core-issues-of-adoption-a-trauma-paradigm/ issues of adoption

10/30/2023

Adoptee Remembrance Day is a day to acknowledge how difficult being adopted has been for many adopted persons. One post cannot do justice to all the pain that has been inflicted upon adoptees by the business of adoption, multitude of losses, and adoption traumas. When their pain was unbearable, some chose su***de. While every adopted person has their own unique journey, with some journeys being less painful than others, Adoptee Remembrance Day acknowledges how painful life has been for many adopted persons.

Info – Adoptee Remembrance Day
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08/09/2023

Individuals want to learn about relinquishment trauma. 59,000 views for the blog since publication. 16,278 times the blog post has been read in 2023 as of 8/9/2023.

08/06/2023

Registration link now available.

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10 Colvin Avenue, Suite 102
Albany, NY
12206

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Tuesday	9am - 7pm
Wednesday	12pm - 7pm
Thursday	9am - 7pm

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Website

https://mariedolfi.com/

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