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About Us
Throughout their careers, Lisa and Jackie have counselled
adoptees, birth families, and prospective adoptive families. They have long held a special interest in helping
LGBTQ+ couples form their families through adoption.
Having worked as school social workers for decades,
Lisa and Jackie have extensive experience working
with children and youth, and counselling individuals struggling with poor mental health,
relational, family, and personal issues,
grief and loss, infertility, trauma and addictions.
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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 worked as a Private Adoption Practitioner since 2007 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 facing high-risk pregnancies, infertility and perinatal loss. She then trained at a specialized children’s mental health centre, counselling children and youth with learning disabilities, autism, and emotional regulation challenges. After working with youth in extended care within a therapeutic residential setting, Lisa joined a children’s mental health center in New York, providing counselling to individuals navigating substance use and complex mental health issues.
In 2001, Lisa returned to Toronto and joined the Toronto District School Board as a school social worker. Following an intensive mentorship process, she was approved by Ontario's Private and International Adoption Unit in 2007 as an Approved Adoption Practitioner. While continuing her work at the TDSB part-time, Lisa grew her adoption practice and, in 2020, transitioned to full-time adoption work.
Lisa continues to provide counselling support to adoptive families, birth parents, and adoptees of all ages. She has many personal connections to adoption within her extended family, and a global perspective shaped by visits to children’s homes and orphanages in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Morocco, and several countries across Europe.
In addition to her adoption work, Lisa maintains a small private therapy practice in Toronto. 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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