Post Placement Parent & Caregiver Coaching
Parenting can be challenging! Not only is it physically demanding but it is also emotionally challenging as you work to create a safe and secure structure to teach your child how to navigate the world. Parenting a child that has been adopted or is in your care through foster or kinship care can add an additional layer of complexity. You may need to help your child navigate past traumas, sensory or behavioral challenges, transitions in care, transracial or transcultural family structures, or maintain relationships with biological family members.
Coaching with Dr. Kimara Gustafson is open to adoptive, foster or kinship parents & caregivers interested in learning how to create better alignment with their child. Topics that coaching can help address include but are not limited to:
- Understanding the potential impact of early adversities, multiple caregiver transitions, prenatal exposures and trauma.
- Helping you gain confidence and comfort in your parenting relationship with your child
- Helping you build your own inner strength and resiliency as a parent and caregiver
- Supporting your child in their positive identity development as an adopted or foster care person
- Supporting your child’s identity in a transracial/transcultural family
Price: $200 per 45 minute coaching session
Request a Coaching Session
- Create or log into your AMC Family Portal
- Select “Request a Coaching Session” (Families will be able to schedule up to 3 coaching sessions at a time)
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Submit Payment ($200 per 45 minute coaching session)
- Once the coaching request form is completed and payment is submitted, a team member from the Adoption Medicine Clinic will reach out to you to schedule your coaching session time. (Note: it typically takes 1-3 business days for the system to process payments).
- All coaching sessions will be completed virtually
Meet Kimara Gustafson, MD, MPH
Dr. Kimara Gustafson is a pediatrician and a faculty member at the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota. Her primary research and education interests include special health care needs of adoptive children and children who have experience in the foster care system, socio-emotional trauma impact on development, racial and cultural social identity development for transracially adoptive or foster care children, and racial discrimination among historically marginalized youth in the United States.
Dr. Gustafson has completed additional certification in CBT & Patient-Centered Mental Health in Primary Care through the REACH Institute at the University of Arkansas.
ATTENTION!
This service is a coaching service for caregivers and parents. No medical advice, diagnosis or treatment plan will be provided to those that participate in this service. If you would like information on how to get your child set up as an established patient at the Adoption Medicine Clinic contact iac@umn.edu.
Contact Us
Administrative Offices
717 Delaware St SE
3rd Floor
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Email: iac@umn.edu
Phone: 612-624-1164