SYF WEBINAR: The Couple Check-Up: Building Relational Resilience in the Adoption and Fostering Journey

SYF WEBINAR: The Couple Check-Up: Building Relational Resilience in the Adoption and Fostering Journey

Date May 15, 2025
Time 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Cost $ 15.00
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Strengthening Your Family Webinar

The Couple Check-Up: Building Relational Resilience in the Adoption and Fostering Journey

Thursday, May 15th, 2025 | 1:00PM – 2:30PM EST 

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Extended Access Available May 15 – June 13, 2025

Center for Adoption Support and Education, Provider #1972, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 3/3/2025 – 3/3/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 1.5  general continuing education credits.

 

Jockey Being Family Logo under Strengthening Your Family Webinar Logo Graphic Image of People Holding HandsIn conjunction with our adoption advocacy partner, The Jockey Being Family Foundation, C.A.S.E offers 600 FREE registrations to each Strengthening Your Family (SYF) Webinar with 10 webinars offered each year. These webinars focus on a variety of relevant topics for adoptive, foster and kinship parents as well as the professionals who serve them.

Before embarking on the adoption journey, couples often invest significant time and effort in preparing for the arrival of their children. Yet, it’s crucial to ask: how often do they invest in preparing their relationship for the unique dynamics adoption brings? Co-piloting through the complex layers of trauma, adoption, and special needs can be both exhausting and overwhelming, putting a strain on even the most resilient relationships. The pressures of effective parenting can exacerbate existing relational stress fractures, underscoring the need for proactive measures to strengthen and sustain the relationship. This webinar will address the often unspoken challenges couples face while navigating the complexities of adoption and out-of-home care. We’ll focus on key topics like communication, conflict resolution, and intimacy, with particular attention to the relational stressors that emerge when parenting children with trauma histories. Presented by a husband-and-wife team—both licensed professional counselors and adoptive parents—this session will provide practical guidance on how couples can build stronger, more supportive relationships. You’ll learn how to leverage each other’s strengths, creatively navigate differences, and collaborate more effectively. This deeper commitment not only strengthens your partnership but also creates a nurturing, stable environment—an invaluable gift for your children’s healing and growth. So, how can couples effectively strengthen their relationship together? Join us for an honest and insightful discussion as we explore the number one challenge facing couples on the adoption journey: isolation.

Torrey & Nikki Carroll

Meet the Presenters 

Torrey E. Carroll, MA, LPC + Nikki M. Carroll, MA, LPC – Founders, The TNC Psychotherapy Group, PLLC and CoachableWorks™

Partners in life and work, adoptive parents, and licensed psychotherapists. Nikki and Torrey Carroll believe in the redemptive power of relationships. They have championed the cause for more than a decade by walking alongside individuals, couples and family systems as they heal and grow.

The Carrolls are national speakers and trainers and have extensive experience collaborating with corporations, faith-based and non-profit organizations, child-welfare agencies, schools, and community ambassadors to develop programming that revitalizes and enriches the lives of individuals and family systems. Their specializations include marriage and family therapy, crisis intervention, grief, trauma, and adoption-sensitive therapy, including parenting skills within the adoption triad and transracial adoption issues. Their clinical experience extends to working with individuals of all ages navigating the experiences of life.

Nikki and Torrey are founding Board members of Relationship First™ and Safe Conversations® Master Trainers. They have been featured in a number of publications and news media including Success Magazine, WFAA’s Daybreak, and CBS’s Plugged Into DFW, and co-hosted the Safe Conversations® Practice and Share DVD alongside Imago Relationship Therapy co-creators.

Prior to becoming Licensed Professional Counselors, Nikki and Torrey successfully managed a 20-year career within corporate America. Nikki holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Baylor University, a Master of Arts degree in Professional Counseling and a Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Amberton University. Torrey holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Dallas, a Master of Arts degree in Professional Counseling and a Master of Arts degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Amberton University.

The Carrolls have been married for twenty-four years. Their journey has been filled with rich experiences that have varied from softly spoken messages to loud and obnoxious life lessons on how to manage and maintain a healthy marriage. The Carrolls are the founders of The TNC Psychotherapy Group, PLLC, and Coachableworks. They reside in a small town just outside of Dallas, Texas and call it an honor to be parents of two “wonder-filled’ children. As a husband, wife, and parents of two, they bring extensive life experience and a a heart for supporting and walking with individuals and families in adoption and foster care constellation.