About MPE Counseling
This is a site that serves as a directory and educational resource for those who are seeking counseling. If you have had an NPE, Adoption, Assisted Reproduction, or MPE (misattributed parentage experience), we can help. As such, we are able to help you find a competent therapist, coach, mentor, or genetic counselor. All people listed communicate with potential clients through their own means and see clients through either their own company, practice, or institution that they work for, respectively. People merely have the ability to look for someone who can help them and then they seek the referral source out on their own terms. This site bridges the gap to help people impacted by genetic identity issues, loss of genetic continuity, and MPEs.
Anyone contacting someone listed in the directory does so understanding that mpecounseling.org does not conduct background checks or check to see if there are prior conduct records concerning the person and any education or licensing listed. It is your duty to ask for credentials and check licensure status upon entering into a relationship with anyone listed here. Check out our “dozen ways to find a competent therapist with MPEs.”
***If you are thinking about suicide or worried about a friend, please call 800-273-8255 for immediate confidential support or dial 911 or 988.***
What is an MPE
Someone has a misattributed parentage experience (MPE) when they discover one, or both, of the parents who raised them, is not their genetic parent. An MPE usually occurs from a previously unknown or undisclosed Non-Paternity Event (NPE) from an extramarital affair, tryst, assault, other sexual encounter, and rape or assault; Adoption (hidden, orphan, foster care, late discovery adoptees (LDA), stepchild; or Assisted Conception (from a Gamete Provider – sperm or egg, or embryo provision, and surrogacy); or any other event which results in unknown genealogy.
Recently, MPE has become the acronym adopted by those making this new life discovery. This acronym is good for community identification and bringing a sense of comfort/belonging to those who are now experiencing an identity crisis and shift in their reality. An MPE discovery is traumatic. Many find themselves experiencing shock, grief, rejection, betrayal, identity issues, shame, anxiety, and depression following their unexpected finding. Currently, it is believed that at least 1 in 20 people have an MPE, usually making their discoveries through over-the-counter DNA tests from companies such as AncestryDNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA, etc. That’s almost 16.6 million people in the U.S. with incorrect medical and family history and possible trauma from discovering their identity isn’t what they thought.
There are many abbreviations associated with mental health professionals which can make it tricky to navigate what credentials someone has. Each state has different licensing requirements and abbreviations for licensure. This is a list of common abbreviations used.
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