Barb Franck, LCSW-C, serves clients through telehealth throughout the states of Virginia and Maryland for the Center for Adoption Support and Education. She received her undergraduate degree in English and Art History from Florida State University. She earned her Master’s degree in American Studies from the University of Maryland, and her Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.  Barb has over 20 years’ experience working with youth and families, both as an adoption-competent therapist and as the former Clinical Director of an agency providing wraparound services to families raising children with emotional and behavioral challenges. She has extensive experience in the field of adoption and specializes in issues of grief and loss, identity, diversity, and transracial adoption. Barb is an adoptive mother of two.

Learn more about Barb and how she provides how being an adoptive parent has influenced her professional career as an adoption-competent therapist.