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welcome to Yoffe Therapy
Yoffe Therapy, Inc. is a group psychotherapy practice dedicated
to supporting all members of the adoption and foster care constellation that focuses on providing therapeutic services to individuals and families involved in adoption and foster care.
Our practice recognizes the unique needs, challenges, and strengths of individuals within the adoption and foster care community, including first birth parents, adoptees, foster youth, adoptive parents, foster parents, and extended family members.
We provide the following therapeutic support:
1. Adoption and Foster Care Competent: Our practice offers a range of therapeutic services tailored to meet the diverse needs of individuals and families within the adoption and foster care community. This may include individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, parent coaching, support groups, and educational workshops for all members of the adoption and foster care constellation.
2. Culturally Competent Care: Our therapists within the practice have specialized training and expertise in working with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences related to adoption and foster care. They are sensitive to the unique cultural, racial, and ethnic considerations that may impact the therapeutic process.
3. Trauma-Informed Approach: Our practice adopts a trauma-informed approach to therapy, recognizing the potential impact of early trauma, loss, and attachment disruptions on individuals within the adoption and foster care constellation. Our therapists are trained to address trauma-related symptoms and provide interventions that promote healing and resilience.
4. Attachment-Focused Interventions: Our therapists utilize attachment-focused interventions to support healthy attachment relationships within adoptive and foster families. This may involve addressing attachment disruptions, promoting secure attachments, and strengthening parent-child bonds through therapeutic interventions.
5. Support for First Birth Parents: Our practice provides support and counseling services for birth parents who have placed children for adoption, helping them navigate grief, loss, and complex emotions associated with adoption. Our therapists offer a safe and nonjudgmental space for birth parents to explore their feelings and experiences.
6. Support for Adoptees: Our practice provides support and counseling services for adoptees who were placed for adoption, helping them navigate grief, loss, and complex emotions associated with adoption. Our therapists offer a safe and nonjudgmental space for adoptees to explore their feelings and experiences.
7. Support for Adoptive and Foster Parents: Our practice provides support and counseling services for Adoptive and Foster Parents who are parenting children in adoption and foster care, helping their children navigate grief, loss, and complex emotions associated with adoption or foster care. Our therapists offer a safe and nonjudgmental space for adoptive and foster parents to explore their feelings and experiences.
8. Adoption Competency: Our therapists have specialized training and expertise in adoption and foster care competency, which involves understanding the unique dynamics and challenges of adoption and foster care relationships. They stay
up-to-date on best practices and research in the field of adoption and foster care therapy supervised by leading expert in the field, Jeanette Yoffe
9. Collaborative Approach: Our practice takes a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to therapy, working closely with other professionals and service providers involved in the adoption and foster care process, including social workers, adoption agencies, schools, and medical professionals.
Overall, our group psychotherapy practice is dedicated to supporting the adoption and foster care constellation and offers specialized therapeutic services that address the unique needs and experiences of individuals and families within this community, fostering healing, resilience, and positive relationships.
WHAT TO EXPECT
We offer psychological and emotional support to anyone connected by Foster Care & Adoption. We believe that therapy is a process of growth and self-discovery. In our sessions, we promote mind and body transformation by utilizing our unique approach developed from years of professional practice and personal history. We encourage a positive outlook, adaptation of new attitudes, and provide original interventions and innovative coping skills.
Our guiding principle is the belief that openness and honesty is the foundation of any successful relationship. Understanding each person’s story, history, and intentions are pivotal in establishing trust and healing. Our practice encompasses all adoptive, birth, and foster family relationships and focuses on healthy attachments and the emotional and psychological comfort of our clients.
SERVICES
We offer a wide range of specialties with many years of experience. We utilize the following methods for treatment:
Attachment-Focused Family Therapy- Attachment-Focused EMDR
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Brainspotting
- Expressive Arts Therapy
- Experiential Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution Focused-Brief Therapy
- Play Therapy
ADOPTION AND
FOSTER CARE
THerapy
We aim to address the unique emotional, psychological, and relational needs that arise from adoption or foster care experiences, for both children, parents, and adults involved...
FAMILY REUNIFICATION
Therapy
We provide family reunification therapy to help reintegrate children and teens with family members, by creating a "step by step" reunification plan to promote healthy family functioning...
ATTACHMENT THERAPY FOR
Children / ADULTS
We provide attachment focused family therapy to facilitate secure attachments, help you understand your own history as an adult and/or understand your child's history...
PLAY ART SENSORY INTEGRATION THERAPY
We utilize a therapeutic approach that integrates elements of play therapy, expressive arts therapy, and sensory integration techniques to address various emotional, behavioral, and developmental challenges in children...
ON-LINE Post-Adoption Coaches for Adoptees and Parents
Certified in adoption competency. Our Coaches will help you reach your personal potential via goal setting, navigate the unique challenges that can arise following adoption, with the goal of promoting positive adjustment, strengthening family relationships, and enhancing overall well-being...
EMDR
ATTACHMENT
FOCUSED
THERAPY
We utilize EMDR psychotherapy with an attachment based approach to treat adoptees or foster youth who have experienced traumatic events, distressing memories, or other psychological symptoms related to the experience of adoption trauma and/or
foster care and separation trauma...
GRIEF & LOSS
THERAPY
Adoption involves significant changes and transitions, including separation from birth parents, adjustment to new family dynamics, and identity formation, which can trigger feelings of grief and loss for all parties involved...
OPEN ADOPTION FACILITATION
We recognize the unique dynamics, challenges, and opportunities inherent in open adoption arrangements, where ongoing contact and communication are maintained between birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees...
MEET
OUR THERAPISTS
All of our therapists have experience supporting youth and young adults with Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and Stress management. Our team uses an evidence-based,
skills-focused approach that is personalized for each individual client and family.
JEANETTE YOFFE, M.A, M.F.T
DIRECTOR
CHILD, ADULT AND FAMILY CLINICIAN
- Foster Care Expertise
- Adoption Competent
- Trauma/PTSD
- Open Adoption
- Emotional Support Animal
- Self-esteem
- Social and communication skills
- Reunion Support
- Reunification Therapy
- Anxiety, Depression, Stress
- Adoptee, Foster Care Personal Experience
CIBELE SOUSA, M.A , M.F.T
CHILD, ADULT AND FAMILY CLINICIAN
- Foster Care/Adoption Competent
- Trauma/PTSD
- Self-esteem
- Social and communication skills
- Anxiety, Depression, Stress Management
- Resilient Toolkit
- Trauma Release
- Emotional Freedom Techniques
- Brain spotting
- Portuguese Speaking
PAULA FREE. B.A.
ADOPTION COACH FOR TEENS AND ADULT ADOPTEES AND PARENTS
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Depression
- Loss/Grief
- Self-Esteem
- Adoption Competent
- Transracial Adoptee Lived Experience
JENNIFER SEIDNER, M.A., M.F.T.
CHILD SPECIALIST
- Foster Care/Adoption Competent
- Trauma Focused-CBT
- Play Therapy
- Self-esteem
- Social and Communication Skills
- Anxiety, Depression, Stress Management
LAURI GREENBERG, M.A., A.M.F.T.
Child, Adult and Family Therapist
- Anxiety
- Trauma
- Depression
- Loss/Grief
- Self-Esteem
- Coping Skills Management
- Children
- Parenting
- LGBTQIA+
- Adoption/Foster Competent
- Adoptee Lived Experience
SUZAN OLSON DAVIS, M.A., A.M.F.T.
CHILD, ADULT AND FAMILY CLINICIAN
- Adoption/Foster Care Competent
- Life Transitions
- Anxiety, Depression, Stress management
- Trauma/PTSD/Grief and Loss
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) & Skills
- Adoptive Parent & Open Adoption Personal Experience
TELE-THERAPY
Due to Covid 19 we now offer remote therapy sessions called "Tele-Therapy" We are here to offer remote psychological and emotional support to anyone connected by Foster Care & Adoption. Remote therapy is a process of growth and self-discovery, and in our sessions, we promote mind and body transformation by utilizing best practices to encourage a positive outlook and adaptation of new attitudes and coping.
Yoffe Therapy has devoted time to learning how children and adults adapt to the experience of foster care and adoption and have developed a range of effective therapeutic interventions available on Amazon, for children, teens, and their families. Each intervention is tailored for each child, teen, and family receiving services at Yoffe Therapy.
Jeanette Yoffe, Founder and Clinical Director of Yoffe Therapy, has specialized for the past 18 years in the treatment of children who manifest serious deficits in their emotional, cognitive, and behavioral development secondary to histories of abuse, neglect, and /or multiple placements. She and her staff dedicate their expertise, heart, and devotion to each family.
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.
Most recently Jeanette published and recorded a play about growing up in foster care and adoption titled "What's Your Name, Who's Your Daddy?" on Amazon and Audible The play is helpful for families, agencies, support groups, and kids (ages 13 &up) to listen, learn, and talk together about the experience HERE
We understand that therapy comes at a price, that is why Jeanette created Celia Center, a non-profit organization that offers FREE support groups and special events for healing.
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Yoffe Therapy, Inc. is a group psychotherapy practice comprised of dedicated, compassionate clinicians brought together to serve the Adoption and Foster Care community in Los Angeles. Our Clinicians are seasoned professionals, Adoption and Foster Care competent, highly skilled at their craft, and focused on the growth and resiliency of their clients. We utilize many different psychotherapeutic interventions to facilitate healing and provide training`s and conferences.
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CONTACT INFO
1968 S. Coast Hwy #3305
Laguna Beach CA 92651
United States
OPENING HOURS
Monday
9:00am-7:00pm
Tuesday
9:00am-7:00pm
Wednesday
9:00am-7:00pm
Thursday
9:00am-7:00pm
Friday
9:00am-7:00pm
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
Closed
