Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., MF.T., is the Executive Director and Founder of Celia Center, a non-profit support center which meets the critical needs of all those connected by foster care and adoption and all those who serve the community of foster care and adoption in Los Angeles, CA and beyond. She is also an adoptions and foster care psychotherapist and director of Yoffe Therapy. Yoffe's desire to become a 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. Yoffe has been in the field for over 20 years, providing mental health education and support, as a psychotherapist, foster care social worker, clinical director, and trainer for Los Angeles County Child & Family Services and the Department of Mental Health. She continues to teach parents, social workers and therapists on adoption and foster care challenges, trauma-informed parenting, impact of pre-adoption trauma, grief/loss, open adoption, and provides support to adult adoptees searching for long lost family members, as well as assists in reunion and family reunification. She is a Court Appointed Reunification Expert for Los Angeles Superior Court in cases involving children at risk for separation. She has appeared on the OWN and TLC Network, as a Psychotherapist teaching about Adoption in the shows Raising Whitley and Long Lost Family. She has written two books, What is Adoption? For Kids and Groundbreaking Interventions: Working with Traumatized Children, Teens and Families in Foster Care and Adoption (available on Amazon) and a play about growing up in foster care adoption "What's Your Name, Who's Your Daddy?"(available on Audible and on Amazon). For more info visit JeanetteYoffe.com.
