Meet Jeanette Yoffe
Executive Director of the Celia Center, Inc. Jeanette’s desire to become a child therapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care issues derived from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system. Her personal experience has informed her education and provided insight into the unique stresses involved with these issues. Because of Jeanette’s life experience she can more easily connect and relate to the children and teens she works with. She is an exceptional child-care worker who is dedicated to helping each of her clients reach their full potential through mental health therapy and make the difficult journey from despair towards resiliency and hope. Read More...
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Read Jeanette’s New Blog at Adoption Voices Magazine….
Jeanette was asked to write a blog about her experience growing up in foster care and being adopted at the age of 7 1/2. "I am one of those people who in the past would “stuff” and “abandon” my early experiences because of the “shame” I felt. After years of difficult soul searching, therapy and the love and support of family and friends I have come to realize that there is no running from this sense of shame, there is only understanding where it comes from, rising above it and moving past...." Read more here....at Adoption Voices Magazine.
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The Adopt Salon
A monthly open support group free for all members of the Adoption Constellation: Birth parents, Adoptees, Former Foster Youth, Foster and Adoptive Parents. A place for the Adoption & Foster Care community to come together to share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, and build strong bonds and connections. The group is facilitated by Adoptions/Foster Care Psychotherapist, Adult Adoptee Jeanette Yoffe, MFT and a co-facilitator guest of the constellation each month. Read More...
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Attachment Focused Parenting For Foster and Adoptive Families
This Audio Download training is based on the book by Daniel Hughes, Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children, which brings the rich and comprehensive field of attachment theory and research from inside the therapy room to the outside, recommended for caregivers with practical parenting skills and techniques rooted in proven therapeutic principles for working with children and teenagers with attachment issues. A guide for all parents who are searching for ways to effectively love, discipline, and communicate with children. A handout will be emailed to participants to follow during the tele-class. Read More...
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ADOPTEES: WE CAN HEAL…
Listen to a series of conversations hosted by Jennifer Lauck, Author of FOUND with Jeanette Yoffe and fellow adoptees Brian Stanton & Trish Lay discuss the Adult Adoptees discovery of truth, identity and the profound search for who we truly are, how we've learned to forgive the circumstances of our lives and what we continue to do to heal the many selves we've "lost and found..." LISTEN HERE...INTERVENTIONS DVD for Children in Foster Care & Adoption 2013
NEW DVD - Working with Traumatized Children and Families in Foster Care and Adoption
by Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., MFT
This interactive DVD is designed to familiarize participants with new and imaginative ways for working with traumatized children in foster care and adoption and their families. Viewers will be provided with a wide variety of play-based methodologies and interventions that have proven successful in working with children over the age of five in foster care and adoption. LEARN MORE HERE...Starting in 2013 the mission of CELIA CENTER, Inc. will begin it’s new journey….
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“Our goal and mission for 2013 and beyond is to bring the constellation together so we can validate the foster and adoptee’s experience, honor the first mother’s experience and educate adoptive and foster families, as well as professionals about the experience, in order to gain clarity, ultimately heal and become a force together.” – Jeanette Yoffe, Executive Director
“….we, as the constellation of adoption and foster care, can be the change we want to see in the world.”