“After a seven-year journey to start my family, Kathie’s help brought baby Alexis into my life. As a single mom and expatriate, her help and advocacy were invaluable and it was the best investment I made throughout my journey. What is extraordinary about Kathie is her passion for building families and that was evident to me in how she took time to educate me on transracial adoption, helped me in the matching processes, and provided unconditional support through the “waiting family” period – I am a better parent for the time I’ve spent with Kathie.”

There are people we meet in our lifetime that leave an indelible mark. Kathie is one of those people. We found her after being rejected from an adoption agency, a low point in our journey to becoming parents. Fortunately, through one of John’s co-workers, around that same time we met Kathie. Kathie gave us a renewed since of hope. She helped us navigate all aspects of our adoption: as our social worker for our home visit; choosing an agency to partner with; counsel while we were waiting parents and post adoption support through the Adoptive Families of Houston group. We are so thankful we had her in our corner. Her expertise, professionalism and her care for the families she works with shines through in every interaction. The journey to adopt can be long and difficult, but Kathie has a way about her that lightens the load. We are so thankful for her, our adoption angel.

-John & Missy

Hi Kathie - here is the review! Let me know if I need to make any changes! I’m going to send you a few pics in next email and you can pick which to use! We still do not have a pic of the whole family together 😂 so I will send you one of Ella and the kids 🙂 or I have a couple of me and Ella at hospital.

We had been in the adoption process for over 2.5 years when we were lucky enough to be referred to Kathie Otte by an adoption agency. The agency knew we had been having a rough time in our adoption process and referred us to Kathie. I will be forever grateful to that agency and especially to Kathie as we would not have our sweet Ella without them. Over two years earlier, we had signed up with another consultant that charged thousands upon thousands of dollars for an 18 month contract so going into my initial meeting with Kathie, I was not optimistic. After our initial call, I knew that Kathie was different. She was empathetic to our situation, yet encouraging. She always told us there is a baby out there that is meant for our family and that she would work with us until we successfully adopted. Kathie constantly strategized ways for us to see more cases. It was never a “here is a list of agencies for you” to sign up with and that’s it. Kathie connected with me regularly to continue to strategize. In February of 2023, Kathie gave me a call and recommended we sign up with an additional adoption professional. We did and in July 2023 we were matched thru that professional and are now home with our beautiful baby girl Ella. I could go on and on about Kathie because I truly believe she is a rare gem in the overcrowded space that is the world of adoption professionals. If you are looking to adopt, consider yourself lucky that you found your way to her page. We could never repay her for how she has touched our family by connecting us with our sweet Ella.

We have been blessed to meet Kathie several years ago when we started our adoption journey. Kathie has been our consultant, and she has helped us in so many ways, from educating us about adoption, and choosing the right adoption agency, to selecting an adoption case that was a good fit for our family. Kathie has so many years of experience in the adoption field and has seen so many cases that she is a great advisor for any family that wants to start their adoption process. Kathie is very knowledgeable in this field. Thanks to Kathie’s experience, advice, and encouragement, we now have two beautiful daughters. We consider her a friend for life, and we keep in touch with her.

Julio and Carolina 

Hi Kathie,

I do apologize that this is coming a few days later than I had planned! The weekend was a busy one.

Kathie has played such an integral and key part of both of our adoptions. When we decided to pursue adoption for our first child in 2018, we turned to Kathie to help us figure out the best route to take and which agency could make our dreams come true the quickest. The wealth of knowledge that Kathie has is invaluable and we were able to take placement of our oldest daughter within a year of our first meeting with her. She held our hands throughout the entire process, was available day or night to be a listening ear or offer advice while we waited. Kathie was our advocate during the process and helped us navigate the uncharted waters of private adoption. In 2023 when we were ready to add another child to our family, Kathie was our first call and we were so excited to begin working with her again! Within just two months of our completed home study, we were matched with our daughter’s birthmother and welcomed her into our home 5 months later. Kathie has been an absolute godsend and is always our first recommendation when others are curious about private adoption. She made our dreams come true twice and we are so grateful for her.

I could write a whole book about how much we love you but I’ll keep it at this!

Thanks