Migrating Toward Wholeness: A Trauma-Informed Framework for Healing & Connection
A story-centered approach to reclaiming voice, presence, and wholeness.
Migrating Toward Wholeness is a trauma-informed, story-centered process that integrates cognitive, emotional, embodied, and relational healing. Developed from my 2021 pilot program with the Rudd Adoption Research Program at UMass-Amherst and expanded upon in my book Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal, this methodology centers narrative reclamation and the power of presence to support deep transformation.
The MTW method includes five Foundational Practices that align with the seven Parts of trauma healing
This is not a one-size-fits-all approach. The process is emergent — responsive to each person’s story, needs, and readiness.
Every healing journey looks different, because every story is different.
Whether I’m working with adoptees and storytellers in one-on-one coaching, facilitating small group workshops, collaborating with organizations to co-create healing-centered, adoption-competent, trauma-informed environments, offering CE-eligible trainings for mental health professionals and educators, or sharing my work through keynotes and performance, each engagement is a co-creative journey toward voice, integration, and wholeness.
Wholeness isn’t a final destination. It’s a practice of presence, reclamation, and radical self-belonging.
What Participants Are Saying
“These weeks spent with Dr. Liz and other adoptees have been life-affirming and life-giving. This is an invaluable tool and a beautiful connection.”
— S. Phillips, Adoptee & Small Group Participant
“Dr. Liz created a space that was powerful, cathartic, and creatively inspiring. I left with tools to reflect, to write, and to reconnect to my voice — both personally and professionally.”
— CE Training Participant