Yoffe Therapy

Meet Jeanette Yoffe

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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…

Jeanette Yoffe Documentary Film Interview

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Jeanette is interviewed for a Documentary Film about Foster Care & Adoption and discusses the importance of connecting with your child’s grief. Read More…

The Adopt Salon

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A monthly open support group free for all members of the Adoption Triad: 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 triad each month. Read More…

Attachment Focused Parenting For Foster and Adoptive Families

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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…

BAGGAGE CLAIM: Your Final Destination for Healing…… for Adult Adoptees

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BAGGAGE CLAIM: YOUR FINAL DESTINATION 4 Call Series on Thursdays in May 2012 with Jeanette Yoffe An adoptees psychological and emotional stuff runs on a never ending conveyer belt like baggage. We deny the baggage is ours over and over, we get angry because it constantly appears before us, we bargain and question whether it’s really our ‘stuff”, and we are saddened because we experience shame and pain upon it’s mere presence….

Jeanette Yoffe Documentary Film Interview

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Groundbreaking Interventions Introduction by Jeanette Yoffe

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Free Your Mind Radio Show

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Free Your Mind Radio Show: The Fostering Imagination Posse head out to Anaheim to have a convsersavtion about Foster Care Awareness month with Brian and Wendy featuring Jeanette Yoffe.

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Interview w/DJ Boy Toy Jesse on Kiss FM Radio Show

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Fostering Imagination Executive Director/Founder Ilia Jauregui, Advisory Board Member and Psychotherapist Jeanette Yoffe, and two of FI’s fabulous youth Loretta Jordan and Martha Guzman join DJ Boy Toy Jesse on KIIS FM for an interview, bringing awareness to foster care issues and the programs Fostering Imagination offers to foster youth and emancipated youth throughout Los Angeles.

If you want to find out more please visit: http://www.fosteringimagination.org/

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Journey To Me Article: “Hold On To My Feelings: An Intervention for Foster & Adopted Children”

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Here is the beginning for you…..”There is a great mystery behind every one of our lives, the great human mystery of why are

we here sharing this miraculous planet? Where did we come from? For the adopted child

the mystery is even greater because they have two active mysteries. The existential one all

humans share about our cosmic origins and purpose and then the very real, very literal

mystery of where did I come from? And why did my birth parents give me away? These

mysteries inspire many powerful feelings but for the adopted child, the pre-eminent feeling

is often grief.

As an Adoption professional and former foster-adopt child, I want to inspire parents to

understand how important “the act of joining with their child’s grief” is. As scary as it

seems, it will actually be very liberating. This liberation will not only bring joy to the parents

but to the child as well. And it is through joy that the hormone for bonding, oxcytocin, is

released into the cells of the body, which can restructure the brain and increase the desire

for attachment. The first step toward honest attachment is for the parent to “feel” and

accept the child’s grief and thus allow the child to “feel felt” at the cellular level where

bonding occurs. After all, we all feel good about ourselves when our experiences are

validated, supported and our fears reassured….”

If you would like to read the full Article please visit www.JourneytoMe.com