Mental Health Services

The Children’s Service Society of Utah is the oldest non-denominational family preservation charity in Utah. With our long history providing pre- and post-adoption services, we understand the unique challenges that adoptive and kinship families can face. We are leaders in adoption-competent mental health care and are the only agency in Utah approved as trainers for the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) Training for Adoption Competency. We specialize in providing strengths-based, adoption-competent, trauma-informed therapy services to children and caregivers related to adoption or kinship care.

We Can Help You

Identify and enhance your family’s inherent strengths
Process adoption, foster, and kinship-related grief and loss
Recognize and understand how adoption and trauma can impact development
Develop more effective ways of managing challenging behaviors
Build your child’s self-esteem
Navigate open adoption relationships
Develop skills to communicate about adoption and related issues

Additionally, we can help with counseling related to reconnecting with birth families or opening a previously closed adoption.

We accept self-pay clients. Sliding scale available based on need. Visit our fees page to learn more.
Birthparents who placed through CSS receive free lifetime adoption-related counseling
Families who qualify for our GRANDfamilies services may be entitled to no-cost counseling.