Diversity · Empathy · Advocacy · Respect

You Are
the Hero

of Your Own Story.

You already know something is not working. Therapy is a space to figure out what that is, and what you want to do about it. Licensed therapy in Michigan, Maryland, and Texas.

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Areas of Focus

Adoptee Identity & Healing
Birth Parent Grief & Relinquishment
Racial Identity Development
Professional Women: Burnout & Transitions
Identity & Career Transitions
Adolescents & Young Adults
Disenfranchised Grief
Brainspotting & Internal Family Systems

Therapeutic Modalities

Brainspotting Internal Family Systems (IFS) Narrative Therapy Trauma-Informed Developmental Lens

The Work

You are the expert on your own life

Therapy here is collaborative. You bring your experiences, your questions, and whatever you are carrying. The work is about helping you access what you already know, build what you do not yet have, and make sense of the things that have not made sense.

Sessions are grounded in evidence-based practice and a developmental lens, meaning your experiences are understood in the context of when they happened and how they have shaped you over time.

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"Healing is not linear and it does not happen on a schedule. What it requires is a consistent, honest space and a willingness to keep showing up for yourself."

Dr. Abby Hasberry

Clinical Specialties

What brings people here

These are the experiences that most often bring people to this practice. If yours is not listed, reach out. The work is tailored to the person, not the category.

Adoptee Identity & Healing

You may be navigating identity questions, grief, reunion, late discovery, or simply trying to understand how adoption has shaped who you are. This is a space that takes those experiences seriously.

Birth Parent Support

Relinquishment is a complex experience that does not resolve on its own timeline. Whether it happened recently or decades ago, there is space here to work through what it has meant for you.

Racial Identity

Questions of racial identity, belonging, and cultural connection are meaningful and sometimes complicated. This is a space to explore them without having to explain why they matter.

Professional Women in Transition

You have worked hard and built a lot. And something still feels off. Therapy can be a space to slow down, get honest about what you want, and figure out what comes next.

Burnout & Stress

When you are running on empty and cannot remember the last time you did not feel behind, that is worth paying attention to. Therapy can help you understand what is driving it and what you actually need.

Adolescents & Young Adults

Growing up is harder than it gets credit for. Anxiety, identity questions, pressure, and the transition into adulthood are all things worth having support through.

Relationships & Family Systems

The relationships we grow up in shape us. Therapy can help you understand those patterns, decide which ones to keep, and build something different where you need to.

Brainspotting & IFS

Sometimes talking about something is not enough to shift it. Brainspotting and Internal Family Systems work with trauma and emotion at a deeper level, and can be used alongside traditional approaches.

Who I Work With

You might be in the right place if

You were adopted

And you are still figuring out what that means for you. Identity, reunion, late discovery, grief, and questions about where you fit are all welcome here, at any stage of life.

You are a birth parent

Relinquishment is not something people often know how to talk about with you. This is a space where you do not have to explain why it still matters, or why it is still hard.

You are successful and exhausted

You have done everything you were supposed to do. And you are tired, or stuck, or not sure what you actually want anymore. That is worth exploring.

You are figuring it out

Early adulthood comes with a lot of pressure and not enough support. If you are navigating anxiety, identity, relationships, or the gap between where you are and where you thought you would be, you are not alone in that.

Dr. Abby Hasberry D.E.A.R. Abby Counseling PLLC
About Dr. Hasberry

Dr. Abby
Hasberry

Ph.D. · LMFT (TX, MI) · LCMFT (MD) · BCC

Adoptee Birth Mother Therapist Researcher Author

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Published Works

Adopting Privilege: A Memoir of Reinventing My Adoptee Narrative
Print via Muse Publishing · Audiobook on Audible

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Dr. Hasberry is a licensed marriage and family therapist licensed in Michigan, Maryland, and Texas. Her clinical approach is grounded in evidence-based practice and a developmental lens, meaning she considers not only what you have experienced, but when you experienced it and how it has shaped you over time.

She brings both formal training and personal experience to adoption-related work. She also specializes in supporting professional women navigating burnout, identity, and career transitions, and in working with adolescents and young adults.

Sessions are conducted virtually. New clients schedule through Greenhouse Indy.

Therapeutic Modalities
Brainspotting Internal Family Systems (IFS) Narrative Therapy Trauma-Informed Care Developmental Lens Diversity-Focused

The Approach

How the work actually works

The R3 Framework Reflect, Release, Reinvent guides the work. Not as a rigid sequence, but as an orientation. You are the expert in your own life. The work follows you.

01

Reflect

Making space to look honestly at what happened, how it shaped you, and where you're carrying it without judgment and without rushing past the hard parts.

02

Release

Trauma held in the body, stories that were never yours to carry, shame that was never yours to own. Brainspotting and IFS reach what talk therapy alone cannot.

03

Reinvent

Reclaiming your narrative. Writing the next chapter from a place of agency rather than reaction making yourself the hero of a story that adoption tried to write for you.

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For Universities & Organizations

Training & Partnerships

Beyond clinical practice, Dr. Hasberry partners with universities, schools of social work, counseling programs, and their research centers to strengthen adoption-competent practice. Drawing on lived experience, clinical expertise, and scholarship that works to shift the traditional adoption narrative, she contracts as a training provider, curriculum developer, and research partner through D.E.A.R. Abby Counseling, PLLC.

Adoption-Competency Training

She designs and delivers workshops and continuing education for the child- and family-serving workforce, for the full range of adoption facilitation professionals including social workers, therapists, agency workers, attorneys, and medical professionals, and for resource and adoptive families.

Research & Lived-Experience Partnership

She joins funded research and evaluation projects as a consultant, co-investigator, or lived-experience research partner, contributing expertise on adoption, relinquishment, identity, and complex family separation.

Curriculum & Certificate Development

She develops adoption-competency modules, course content, and certificate materials that a program can license or integrate, drawing on both clinical practice and years of curriculum leadership.

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