Jeanette Yoffe, MFT

Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., M.F.T. earned her Master's in Clinical Psychology, specializing in adoption and foster care, from Antioch University in June of 2002. She treats children, teens, and adults with serious psychological problems secondary to histories of abuse, neglect, adoption, and /or multiple foster care placements. She has specialized for the past 20 years in the treatment of children and teens who manifest serious deficits in their emotional, cognitive, and behavioral development. ​​ 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. Learn more here. ​ Jeanette’s desire to become a therapist with a special focus on adoption 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. She is also Court Appointed Reunification Expert for Los Angeles Superior Court in cases involving children at risk for separation. ​ In 2019 she published a one-woman show she performed back in 2000 titled "What's Your Name, Who's Your Daddy?" now available on Amazon and is recorded on Audible. This is a great resource for families, support groups, and agencies, to listen and understand the child's point of view about growing up in foster care and adoption. ​ During her five years as a professional social worker and therapist at Southern California Foster Care and Adoption Agency, Jeanette developed a series of groundbreaking interventions for working with foster and adopted children and presented creative workshops for parents as well as therapists and social workers in Los Angeles. Her first training was at the 2005 Child Welfare League Conference and the 2012 DCFS Conference. She was encouraged and inspired to publish her first mental health book of interventions titled, GROUNDBREAKING INTERVENTIONS: WORKING WITH TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION. This book contains structured treatment activities, the goals of treatment, materials needed, and a “how-to approach” for each methodology. A must-have intervention book for all professionals and parents working with children in foster care and adoption! ​​ In 2006 she was awarded the Los Angeles Foster Care Hero Award for her dedication to children and families in foster care.