UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
DNA Discovery Support Program for Health Care Providers
As healthcare providers, we understand how to care and counsel families through complex health and mental health challenges. However, when we become the patient, when we learn out DNA tests results reveals unexpected family connections, health risks, or ancestral surprises, the journey becomes deeply personal and professionally complex. This 6-week virtual support program brings together licensed healthcare professionals (mental health counselors, medical providers, and genetic counselors) in a confidential peer community where you can safely process your own genetic discovery experiences or seek consultation support for similar cases in your practice. Unlike public forums that can't protect your professional privacy, our small group of colleagues meets weekly via Zoom, offering the specialized understanding and confidential support that only fellow healthcare providers can provide.
Understanding DNA Discovery: Supporting Clients Through Misattributed Parentage
Direct-to-consumer genetic testing has uncovered millions of hidden family secrets, leaving many individuals struggling with identity disruption, grief, and complex family dynamics. These discoveries—Not Parent Expected (NPE), Donor Conception (DC), and Late Discovery Adoption (LDA)—can be deeply destabilizing, and many therapists feel unprepared to help.
This 3-hour live online training provides trauma-informed frameworks and practical tools to address the emotional and relational challenges of DNA discoveries. Drawing on FAIR DNA Project research, participants will explore stages of identity transformation, learn attachment- and narrative-based interventions, and gain confidence navigating disclosure and family system complexities.
Open to therapists, social workers, psychologists, genetic counselors and other providers, this foundational training welcomes both new and experienced clinicians seeking to support clients impacted by unexpected genetic revelations.