Adrian Dotson, MA, LMFT

Adrian brings uncommon experience, expertise and compassion to Relationship Resolutions because of her extensive work with families. She has used that experience as a foundation upon which she built an empathic yet direct style of therapy that has helped hundreds. She has a passion for people and consistently appeals to her client family's strengths to help them rebuild and unify. She has successfully worked with numerous populations, experiencing a range of problems, including substance abuse, and a gamut of other emotional and behavioral issues.

Adrian's experience working for many years as a family assessor for potential adoptive parents has afforded her a unique specialty, which considers the adoption process as multi-layered. In addition to helping couples work through the emotions of the adoption process, she also provided a safe and supportive environment for couples to express their struggles with anxiety, grief, and loss related to infertility issues. For years, she tirelessly provided parents and families support, education, and feedback, which helped keep them devoted to the adoption process in the face of numerous challenges, resulting in successful outcomes.

Adrian's other specialized training and experience included her involvement in a research-based treatment model called "Parenting with Love and Limits." Under the guidance of Scott Sells, the founder of the program, Adrian worked as a facilitator, implementing a specific program to help parents dealing with difficult/troubled children, including those that struggle with Reactive Attachment Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorders.

Adrian believes her best work has been with families with adoptive and foster care issues, couples in crisis that need and desire reconnection, and parenting of challenging children. She has a passion for the family systems approach to therapy and brings many years of strong, eclectic therapeutic interventions to the practice. She is excited and enthusiastic about working with couples, families, and individuals at Relationship Resolutions.