[Susan Dusza Guerra Leksander](http://www.pactadopt.org/about/our_staff.html#SusanLeksander), LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist who has provided services to all members of the adoption constellation since 2008. At [Pact, an Adoption Alliance](http://www.pactadopt.org/), she focuses on the needs of expectant parents considering adoption and birth/first families who have placed children for adoption. She is also a first mother and a transracial adoptee. Susan enjoys zombie fiction and tending her menagerie of 10 animals.