September 10, 2025

A Braverman Than I

30 minutes

I met therapist/adoptee advocate Joe Soll in the mid-90s in New York City.

We'll discuss decades-long family searches, "spaciness" and getting fed up with living in secrecy.

As we all slowly beat back the darkness and embrace much-needed longer days (I'm looking at you especially, Berlin), this is the perfect episode to shine some light on the adoptee perspective.

Druids and pagans and normies - together, onward into the light!

Music, as always, by the inimitable Cassis Birgit Staudt.

Joe Soll is a NY State Licensed Psychotherapist: 845-268-0283

Approved Adoption Counselor: United Kingdom Dept. of Health
Member: International Association of Trauma Professionals
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional
Diplomate: American Psychotherapy Association (retired)
Fellow: American Orthopsychiatric Association (retired)

Joe Soll 조 살, the author of "Adoption Healing... a path to recovery" (4 versions plus one in German and one in Chinese and one in Korean), Perilous Passage, co-author of "Evil Exchange" and "Fatal Flight", is a reunited adoptee, psychotherapist and lecturer internationally recognized as an expert in adoption related issues. He is director and co-founder of Adoption Crossroads, an international, non-profit organization consisting of over 470 adoption agencies, mental health institutions and adoption search and support groups in 8 countries, representing over 500,000 individuals whose lives have been affected by adoption. Adoption Crossroads is dedicated to educating the public about adoption issues and reforming current adoption practices.

The director and founder of the Adoption Counseling Center in New York City, Mr. Soll is also co-organizer and co-chair of the NY State Adoption Agency Task Force; a member of Matilda Cuomo's 1993 Advisory Council on the "Adoption Option"; past exec. board member of the Amer. Adoption Congress and a former trustee of the International Soundex Reunion Registry

He played himself in the HBO Special "Reno Finds Her Mom", was featured in the 2000 Global Japan award winning documentary, "Adoption Therapist: Joe Soll" and in the MediaStorm 2011 documentary "Broken Lines" as well as profiled in the International Museum of Women.

His latest book is his autobiography, Braverman

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