07/22/2025
You can listen to / watch this episode of Adoption: The Making of Me at...
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5WqMNB4KcG50j4VTabqugT?si=a62a1f8892404c12
On Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/adoption-the-making-of-me-an-oral-history-of-adoptee-stories/id1565403354?i=1000718413991
On YouTube: https://youtu.be/DIgvuaK__NA?si=jDc399z89wXoW5Yn
Katherine Allen McNally is an adoptee and a licensed therapist who specializes in working with adoptees and their adoptive families. She transitioned from a career in graphic design and advertising to pursue this path, driven by a deep personal commitment to supporting this unique population. Over the course of her work, she has encountered a wide spectrum of adoption narratives, including various forms of conception, gestation, birth, relinquishment, adoption, and survival. These experiences led her, along with a colleague, to develop a trauma healing model known as The TAG Method for Trauma Reprocessing and Integration.
At the heart of The TAG Method lies the adoption experience. Katherine is passionate about sharing this model and its insights with broader audiences. She believes that adoption represents a significant and often overlooked trauma—one that is visible yet rarely acknowledged. In her work, she explores how adoptees navigate attachment loss, the silent fear of being “not chosen” again, and the emotional impact often referred to as “the cloud.” She also discusses the “three As” and how these themes influence the adoptee experience.
Katherine shares how clients access these deep-seated pains and begin the process of healing, ultimately freeing themselves from a trauma they never asked to carry. She also offers personal reflections from her own healing journey, enriching her professional insights with lived experience.
