Kara has extensive experience
working with and developing
techniques for children and families working through adoption and
attachment
issues. She has worked with and advocated for adoptees and their
families in a
variety of settings including in-home therapy, mentorship programs,
state adoption
trainings, church adoption networks, public speaking engagements and
private
practice. You can also hear Kara speak on public and private adoption
panels
around the Twin Cities area on behalf of
life INSIGHTS and the Resource
Committee of Adopted Adults (RCAA).
Kara has more than four years of therapeutic experience working with children, adolescents and young adults with issues including teen pregnancy, abusive relationships, family abuse, anxiety and depression, addiction and co-dependency, anger and oppositional behavior, sexual identity, attachment and abandonment fears, dependency in relationships and life transitions. Kara has worked with adopted adults AND birth mothers to assist all of those involved through the grief and loss period of the pre and post adoption journey. All of these concerns and more can be addressed at
life INSIGHTS.
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Kara Riedesel, MA
Post Adoption and Attachment Specialist
Education
B.A.
Journalism/Mass Communications
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
M.A. Clinical Counseling and
Psychotherapy
Adler Graduate School, Minneapolis, MN
Community Affiliations
Resource Committee of Adopted Adults (RCAA)
With my Korean host family in 2005 in Seoul, Korea
