Jeanette: Foster Care, Adoption & Identity
S13, Ep. 4: Jeanette
Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., M.F.T. earned her Master's degree in Clinical Psychology, specializing
in adoption and foster care for the past 20 years. She treats children, teens, and adults
with serious psychological problems secondary to histories of abuse, neglect,
adoption, and /or multiple foster care placements. She is also an adopted person,
raised in foster care for 6 years.
She is the Founder of Celia Center Inc., a non-profit organization in Los Angeles
supporting all members of the foster care and adoption constellation, which includes
birth parents, foster youth, adoptees, foster and adoptive parents, as well as
professionals working in the field.
She is also the Clinical Director of Yoffe Therapy Inc. A mental health center in Los
Angeles provides services to families, children, teens, and adults connected by foster
care and adoption.
In 2019, she published a one-woman show she performed back in 2000 titled What's Your Name? Who's Your Daddy? and is on Audible.
She published her first mental health book of interventions for working with children
in foster care and beyond titled The Traumatized and At-Risk Youth Toolbox: Over
160 Attachment-Informed Interventions for Working with Kids and Families in Foster
Care and Beyond. A must-have intervention book for all professionals and parents
working with children in foster care and adoption. She also has a set of children's books: What is Adoption? and What is Foster Care?
Jeanette created a YouTube Channel devoted to educating the world about foster care,
adoption, and mental health called Jeanette-ically Speaking, launching Hand Model of
The Brain Video for kids.
She is also a Psychology Today Contributor for the column The Inner Life of Foster Care.
Thank you to our Patrons! Join at the $10 level and be part of our monthly ADOPTEE CAFE community. The next meeting will be Saturday, November 21st at 1 pm ET.
RESOURCES for Adoptees:
Adoptees who identify as queer gathering in community on Zoom: For details, email adopteequeer@gmail.com and on Instagram.
Celia Center Inc., a non-profit organization in Los Angeles
supporting all members of the foster care and the adoption constellation.
Gregory Luce and Adoptee Rights Law
Fireside Adoptees Facebook Group
Dr. Liz Debetta: Migrating Toward Wholeness Movement
Moses Farrow - Trauma therapist and advocate
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-8255 OR Dial or Text 988.
