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About Us
Throughout their careers, Lisa and Jackie have worked with adopted and foster children, as well as clients who have experienced infertility and perinatal loss.
They possess extensive experience assisting singles, couples, and LGBTQ individuals seeking to adopt both domestically and internationally, as well as families with biological and adopted children.
As former school social workers, Lisa and Jackie understand the unique needs of children with learning disabilities, autism and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
They also have comprehensive experience counselling clients with mental health issues, perinatal loss, addictions, trauma and newcomer populations.
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MSW, RSW
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Jackie Poplack
Jackie has over thirty years of experience in the field of adoption and offers counselling support to adult adoptees, adoptive families and birth parents.
Jackie previously worked as an Adoption Practitioner and has visited children's villages worldwide, including institutions in India, Thailand, Vietnam, South Africa, Tanzania, Rwanda, China, South Korea, Morocco, Cambodia, South America and Europe. Early in her career, Jackie worked as an adoption worker at Toronto Children's Aid Society before becoming a psychiatric social worker in the Day Treatment Program at The Toronto Western Hospital. At the Toronto District School Board, she provided counselling and support to families and children.
Jackie has extensive experience in the fields of attachment, older child adoption, special needs adoption and international adoption and has worked closely with Children’s Aid Societies across Ontario. She was a committee member of Ignite the Spark (Children's Aid Foundation), an enrichment program for children in the child welfare system across Canada.
Jackie has been listed as a non-sexist therapist by the Women's Referral and Resource Counselling Centre and was a consultant to Interwoven Connections.
Lisa is a clinical social worker who has worked a private adoption practitioner for nearly two decades. In addition to her work with adoptive families, birth parents and adoptees, Lisa has a special interest in helping LGBTQ+ clients build their families through adoption. She has visited children's homes worldwide, including orphanages in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Morocco, and across Europe.
Lisa first trained at Mt. Sinai Hospital, counselling women with high-risk pregnancies and who had experienced perinatal loss, and then at a children's mental health center, supporting children with learning disabilities and autism. After working at a therapeutic residential group home, Lisa worked as an addiction counsellor and clinical social worker in New York. In 2001, Lisa returned to Toronto and began working as a school social worker at the Toronto District School Board, a role she held until 2020.
In addition to working as a private adoption practitioner, Lisa maintains a private therapy practice in Toronto.
She has been trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR).
Lisa Kreindler
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