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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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Jackie Poplack
Jackie has been working in the field of adoption for over thirty years. She 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.
Jackie was an adoption worker at the Toronto Children's Aid Society prior to working as a psychiatric social worker in the Day Treatment Program and The Women's Clinic 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. She was a consultant to Adopt4Life, an adoptive parent advocacy group in Ontario.
Lisa is an Adoption Practitioner and clinical social worker in private practice. She has worked with children and families for over two decades and has visited children's homes worldwide, including orphanages in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Morocco and across Europe.
In addition to working with birth parents and families pursuing domestic, international, inter-provincial and public adoptions, Lisa has a special interest in working with LGBTQ+ adoptive families.
Lisa began her career at Mt. Sinai Hospital, counselling women with high-risk pregnancies and who had experienced perinatal loss. She then trained at a children's mental health center, supporting children with learning disabilities and autism and worked in a therapeutic residential group home. After completing additional training in addiction counselling, Lisa worked as a counsellor in New York State. In 2000, she returned to Toronto, where she spent 20 years working as a social worker at the TDSB, counselling and supporting students and families across the Greater Toronto Area.
In addition to her work 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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