Welcome to the new and improved Adoption Counseling Services web site, the web site for Ellen Rardin, an adoption counselor working in the Memphis area.

Ellen Rardin has 25 years of experience in adoption. She has had the privilege of helping create over 800 adoptive families. She is a licensed clinical social worker who formed her own agency, Adoption Counseling Services, in 1992. Ellen provides home studies for both international and domestic adoption, adoption planning and consultation for expectant parents and adopting parents, counseling/education for adult adoptees and classes for adoptive parents. The Adoption Option and Conversations with Your Adopted Child are offered annually. The Memphis Adoption Review, the agency  newsletter, is published biannually.

Melanie Parham is a social worker and adoptive parent. She brings a wealth of professional and personal experience to her with at Adoption Counseling Services. Melanie provides consultation and home studies in the Martin/Dresden Tennessee area.