About Dr. Abigail Hasberry

Dr. Abigail K. Hasberry is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Texas & Michigan, and a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist in Maryland. She is also a Board Certified Coach with over two decades of experience at the intersection of education, identity, and healing.

Her clinical work centers the adoption constellation: adoptees, birth parents, adoptive families, and the siblings, partners, and children whose lives are shaped by adoption. She approaches this work from a trauma-informed, adoption-informed, and identity-centered lens, drawing on frameworks including Internal Family Systems, Narrative Therapy, Brainspotting, and Attachment Theory.

Alongside her clinical practice at Counseling at The Green House, Dr. Hasberry provides executive leadership coaching to founders of educational and nonprofit organizations through D.E.A.R. Abby LLC. Her coaching clients include school founders, nonprofit leaders, and executives working at organizations including Emerson Collective, Camelback Ventures, and Moonshot edVentures.

She is a co-creator, with Brooke Randolph, of the Introduction to Adoption Competency training, a curriculum designed to address the significant gap in adoption-informed practice across the mental health field. She is a Board Member of Adoption Knowledge Affiliates and a Court-Appointed Special Advocate (CASA).

Dr. Hasberry holds four graduate degrees: a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in International and Cultural Studies from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; an M.S. in Industrial and Organizational Leadership from Walden University; an M.Ed. in Counseling and Development with a specialty in Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling from Lamar University; and an M.A. in Teaching from Goucher College. Her undergraduate degrees in Sociology and African American Studies are from Towson State University.

Dr. Hasberry is a domestic transracial adoptee, born Black and adopted as an infant into a white family with three biological children. She was the only adoptee and the only African American in her family of origin, an experience that shaped every dimension of her identity, her education, and her life's work.

She is also a birth mother, in full reunion with her biological son. She has navigated reunion from both sides of the constellation, as an adoptee searching for biological family and as a birth mother found by the child she placed. That dual experience is foundational to her clinical work, her writing, and her commitment to centering the voices that adoption too often silences.

Her memoir, Adopting Privilege: A Memoir of Reinventing My Adoptee Narrative, was published by Muse Publishing in February 2025. The book examines the privileges and losses embedded in transracial adoption, the healing work she has done, and her responsibility, as a scholar, therapist, and adoptee, to contribute her story to a narrative that has long excluded voices like hers. The book has been received as a significant addition to adoptee-authored literature.

Before her clinical career, Dr. Hasberry spent over two decades in education, including as the Founding Head of School at BASIS San Antonio North Central Campus, which ranked first in Texas and tenth nationally among charter middle schools during her tenure. That leadership experience informs her coaching practice and her deep belief that institutions can do better by the people they serve.

She is married and raising three children. She is based in Baltimore, Maryland.