Jordyn Bradshaw, LLMSW

Therapist | Adoptee Advocate | Trauma-Informed Practitioner

Welcome – I’m So Glad You’re Here

Hi, I’m Jordyn. I’m a therapist, a mental health advocate, and a deeply committed believer in the power of healing relationships. If you're exploring therapy, I want to first acknowledge how brave that step is. Whether you're a teenager struggling to understand yourself, an adoptee wrestling with identity, a parent overwhelmed with family dynamics, or someone navigating trauma, grief, or anxiety—I'm here to walk alongside you.

My goal is to offer a space where you can breathe a little easier, speak freely, and begin to connect with your strengths—even if they feel far away right now.

Who I Work With

I specialize in working with adolescents, adoptees, families, and Asian American clients. These identities hold unique experiences that are often underrepresented in traditional mental health spaces, and I aim to create a space where each part of you is welcomed, understood, and affirmed.

I also bring experience from the child welfare field, where I’ve supported families through transitions, reunifications, and hard conversations about safety, belonging, and identity. This background taught me that healing doesn’t always happen in neat, linear ways—but it always happens in connection.

Whether you're facing anxiety, depression, trauma, racial identity challenges, or adoption-related questions, you deserve to feel supported by someone who sees the full picture of your life and history—not just a list of symptoms.

Areas of Expertise

Over the years, I’ve worked with a wide variety of concerns and diagnoses. Here are some of the areas I specialize in:

Emotional and Behavioral Concerns

  • Anxiety and stress

  • Depression

  • Anger management

  • Self-harming behaviors

  • Suicidal ideation

  • Teen violence

  • Behavioral issues in children and adolescents

Trauma and Identity

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Sexual abuse and domestic violence

  • Grief and loss

  • Racial identity

  • Adoption and foster care experiences

  • Women’s issues

  • LGBTQ+ affirming support

  • Dual identity stress, especially in multicultural and transracial contexts

Personality and Mental Health Diagnoses

  • ADHD

  • Bipolar disorder

  • Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

  • Antisocial Personality traits

  • Dual diagnosis (mental health + substance use)

  • Eating disorders

I understand that labels and diagnoses can be both helpful and limiting. I work with clients in a way that prioritizes their story over their “category.” You are not your diagnosis—you are a whole person, and therapy is a space to be treated as such.

My Approach to Therapy

At the heart of my practice is a commitment to strength-based, trauma-informed, and client-centered care. That means we start with your strengths—not your “problems”—and build from there. You set the pace. You decide what feels safe to explore. My role is to help you feel supported, empowered, and never judged.

I take time to understand the systems you're part of—your family, culture, community, and identity—and how those shape your experiences and self-perception. Especially for BIPOC and adoptee clients, therapy must be a place where cultural nuance is honored, not ignored.

And yes—therapy can be hard. But it can also be full of laughter, relief, insight, and even joy. Healing doesn’t have to feel clinical or cold. My hope is that our sessions feel like a grounding place in a chaotic world.

The Tools I Use

Every client is different, so my approach is flexible and tailored to your needs. Some of the therapeutic approaches I frequently use include:

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – Helps you notice and shift unhelpful thought patterns.

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) – Supports emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and building healthier relationships.

  • Motivational Interviewing – Encourages inner motivation and self-directed change, especially helpful in navigating substance use or ambivalence.

  • Affirmation Therapy – Creates space to affirm your identity, especially in the face of systemic marginalization or internalized shame.

  • Family-Oriented Practice – Involves and supports families to build communication, understanding, and healing together.

  • Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) – A structured, evidence-based approach to help children, adolescents, and families process trauma.

I'm also trained in Brainspotting, a powerful somatic therapy that helps access and release trauma stored in the body. It’s a gentle yet deeply effective tool for clients who’ve found talk therapy alone isn’t enough.

Why This Work Matters to Me

Therapy is not just my job—it’s my calling. As a woman of color and an adoptee, I understand the layered complexities that identity can bring into everyday life. Growing up with questions about belonging, culture, and family shaped how I see people: as resilient, layered, and worthy of deep understanding.

My experiences have given me both personal insight and professional purpose. I know how valuable it is to sit across from someone who “gets it,” who doesn’t need everything explained from scratch, and who respects your story. My clients often tell me they feel safe, seen, and like they don’t have to filter themselves—and that means everything to me.

Outside the Therapy Room

I’m also the creator of www.MTMTE-blog.com, a platform I built to provide accessible resources, reflections, and community for adoptees, Asian American individuals, and anyone navigating mental health with complexity and courage. The blog is a mix of psychoeducation, storytelling, and advocacy, and it reflects my belief that healing doesn’t only happen in the therapy room—it also happens in conversations, writing, and community spaces.

In my free time, you’ll find me reading, walking in nature, sipping something warm, or spending quiet moments with the people who ground me. I practice what I invite my clients to do: rest, reconnect, and reflect.

A Note to You, If You're Considering Therapy

Therapy is not about “fixing” you. It’s about reconnecting you to the parts of yourself that have always been strong, wise, and whole. It’s about tending to the wounds you’ve carried alone for too long. It’s about learning to ask for help—and realizing you don’t have to do this by yourself.

You don’t need to have everything figured out before reaching out. If you’re curious, uncertain, or even nervous—that’s okay. I’ll meet you exactly where you are.

If you think we might be a good fit, I’d love to connect. Let’s see what healing can look like—together.

Get in Touch
Based in Upper Michigan
Offering virtual therapy for the entire state of Michigan
jbradshaw.therapy@gmail.com or (517) 507-3051
Learn more at www.MTMTE-blog.com