Life beyond adoption day is rarely just all sunshine and rainbows.
Adoption is a lifelong unfolding. Support with openness belongs in every part of it—including the moments when life in the adoption constellation feels beyond the sun.
Beyond the Sun is an adoption-fluent private practice offering whole-constellation support through talk and art therapy, coaching, consultation, and creative clinical care — in person in Carmel and by phone or video across Indiana.
People come to Beyond the Sun for different reasons, at different ages, and from different places in the adoption constellation.
You belong here.
To Help You Find Your Way
Begin with who you are, the kind of support you are looking for, or what you are navigating.
Not sure where to begin?
Tell us what you are looking for.
How We Can Help Start the Conversation
Traditional Talk Therapy
Talk therapy at Beyond the Sun is for people who want conversation to lead the work without having to explain adoption to the person meant to help. Adoption, identity, grief, attachment, family roles, and neurodivergence remain in the clinical frame from the beginning.
Guided Coaching
Our coaching is not a script, curriculum, or stream of generic advice. It is a responsive, focused process shaped around the situation, relationship, and decision in front of you — with adoption, identity, and family roles in view throughout.
WHAT WE UNDERSTAND:
Adoption changes meaning across a lifetime.
Development, new information, parenthood, contact, loss, reunion, and changing family roles can bring different parts of adoption forward at different times.
Grounded in decades of combined lived experience in adoption, blended families, grief and loss, and within the complexly layered space of reunion & re/connection across generations within the constellation, Beyond the Sun keeps those layers connected rather than treating each moment as an isolated problem.
Whole Constellation Care
Where adoption is understood, not translated.
Children's Therapy
Children are not reduced to behavior. If your child is struggling, you’re in the right place. Our therapists have specialized training and experience working with children of all ages.
Grief & Loss
No matter the specific source of grief or loss in your life, our team of therapists is uniquely qualified to help you through the pain of your personal experience.
Adoption Constellation
Whether you’re an adoptee, adoptive parent, birth parent, or another member of the adoption constellation, our team is here to support you through specialized expertise you won’t find anywhere else.
Stewards of Open File Care
Beyond the Sun stewards Adoption Support Center files and offers informed care for people opening, reviewing, and processing adoption records held here or elsewhere.
If your adoption was completed through ASC, your file is protected here and can be opened with support.