Eligible families will receive the online counselling to help them adjust to life after they adopt a child.
The initiative is a partnership between two therapy charities - Relate and Chroma.
Relationship specialists from Relate will provide six sessions to parents of adoptive children who are already being supported with art therapy by Chroma.
Daniel Thomas, joint managing director at Chroma, which receives funds through the government-backed Adoption Support Fund, said extra support is sometimes required where adoption integration causes difficulties for couples or impacts "on a parent's ability to cope or to manage their own feelings".
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