Dr. George Pratt to Post Emotional Healing and Stress Tips at Online Adoption Site

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(Free-Press-Release.com) June 23, 2009 -- La Jolla, CA, June 2009 — George J. Pratt, Ph.D., a frequent guest on CNN’s Larry King Live and other television programs has joined forces with La Jolla couple Patrick and Jeanie Scott to help adoptive parents, birth mothers and adopted children to overcome the emotional challenges of becoming family.

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Dr. George Pratt to Post Emotional Healing and Stress Tips at Online Adoption Site

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Pratt is a renowned licensed clinical and consulting psychologist with a private practice in La Jolla. He specializes in psychotherapy, mind/body techniques, hypnotherapy and performance enhancement. He has a depth of training and an abundance of experience to help people relieve their difficulties and work toward enhancement of their lives. He’ll soon share his expertise at www.daniellesbeacon.com where lawyers, facilitators and other professionals now share helpful information about the legal and emotional entanglements that make family building so difficult. The goal is to show visitors how to become a family through adoption.

“I want to help Pat and Jeanie in any way that I can,” Pratt said. “The adoption journey is stressful. It may ignite phobias, anxieties, or distressing emotions, such as anger, guilt or grief. The breakthrough science of Though Field Therapy is an easy-to-use practice that can make a remarkable difference.”

The Scotts, who recount their own harrowing search for a child in a new memoir, Danielle’s Beacon, learned the hard way how stressful the process can be. Even after adoption a baby girl, Pat Scott called on Pratt to help him resolve emotional distress after witnessing a traffic accident that made him fear for the fragility of his daughter’s life.

“He helped me release a lot of painful memories about my past and concerns for the future. I know his advice at the Danielle’s Beacon site will help others, too,” he said.

In the coming weeks, Pratt will dispense tips for stress reduction and how to face the challenges inherent in adoption. He'll draw from his many years of experience, as well as his books – Instant Emotional Healing and the new edition (soon to be released) of Hyper-Performance, which teaches his AIM Strategy for optional achievement in all areas of life.

Jeanie Scott says she and her husband were lucky, despite the fact that it took them about 15 years to become a “normal” family. She credits the many professionals like Pratt who helped. “It took a lot of very capable people to make this happen.”

The Danielle’s Beacon adoption café features advice from professionals, such as Joy L. Kolender, a San Diego attorney who specializes in adoption, and adoption facilitator Cindy Simonson, of San Clemente. Other groups and individuals with adoption expertise have been invited to contribute.

Even adoptive parents, birth parents and adults who were adopted are invited to share portions of their story at the adoption blog. All will help educate the millions of people who are searching for a child — a child who needs a home.

The online adoption outreach idea began to take shape last year after Patrick Scott finished a screenplay called Danielle’s Beacon, a true story based on his personal struggle with accepting adoption. His co-screenwriter, Michael Berlin, whose Hollywood credits include television shows such as Miami Vice, The Commish and Murder She Wrote is also an adoptive parent.

A prose memoir of the Scotts’ often heart-breaking odyssey to become family is now being considered for publication. Patrick Scott, a football fan, likens his luck to a late-game victory for the home team.

“I was ready to give up. It was too painful. It was Jeanie who saw the light. When we got the call, the call that changed our lives, it was Jeanie who convinced me, ‘This is the one,’ ” he says.

Although the Danielle’s Beacon adoption café is primarily focused on would-be adoptive parents, it does not exclude birth mothers. In fact, information about how to handle unplanned pregnancy is also available and will be posted regularly.

More information can be found online at http://www.daniellesbeacon.com