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About Us
Throughout their careers, Lisa and Jackie
have supported prospective adoptive families, adoptees and birth families, with a particular focus on helping LGBTQ+ clients build their families through adoption.
Drawing on decades of experience as registered social workers, they have extensive clinical expertise in
child and adult mental health, individual and family counselling, infertility and bereavement work.
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Jackie Poplack
MSW, RSW
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 Kreindler
MSW, RSW
Lisa has been working in adoption for nearly twenty years and has a special interest in working with LGBTQ+ couples looking to build their families through adoption.
Lisa began her career at Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital, supporting women experiencing high-risk pregnancies, infertility, and perinatal loss. Early in her career, she trained at a specialized children’s mental health centre for children with learning disabilities and autism, and then worked treating addictions and as a school counsellor in New York. As a Toronto District School Board social worker, Lisa provided counselling and support to families for two decades.
Lisa first began working as an approved adoption practitioner in 2007. In 2020, she left the TDSB to focus on full-time adoption work, providing counselling and support to prospective adoptive families, adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees. Her work has been shaped by personal connections to the adoption triad and visits to children's homes and orphanages in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Morocco, and across Europe.
In addition to her work as an adoption practitioner, Lisa maintains a small private clinical practice. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and brings a calm, grounded presence to her work with individuals and families.
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