Joey Nesler began her career as a research assistant in the Veterans Administration and from there she moved onto to an educational setting working with at-risk teens.

Joey’s experience with adoption began at birth, as she grew up in a family of adoption, and she was reunited with her birth family in her late-20s.

"Adoption issues change with every developmental stage. From small child to elder adult, a person matures and gains new skills for addressing adoption, infertility, or loss issues that arise, throughout a lifetime. People who are touched by adoption--adoptees, birth and adoptive families--often experience painful loss and grief. It may be so painful that facing that alone is overwhelming. But, that pain doesn’t simply go away; it will crop up in many areas of life. With counseling or therapy, the individual may become more aware of how the adoption experience is impacting life and this can be key in making progress." ~Joey Nesler

Joey has a busy private psychotherapy practice, working with individuals and families in Southern California. She writes and speaks on the emotional and developmental issues of adoption, as well .

Writing and communication have been constants in Joey’s life; she has been published in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

She was nominated for a Best Thesis award in the California State University, Long Beach Masters in Social Work program, for her graduate research in creativity with at-risk youth.

Joey's most recent endeavor in the field of communication was interviewing Congresswomen Loretta and Linda Sanchez for the Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care Conference.

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