Welcome to @Jeanette-icallySpeaking
✨A channel dedicated to healing, hope, and honest conversations about adoption, foster care, and trauma recovery.
I’m Jeanette Yoffe, a psychotherapist, author, speaker, and advocate based in Los Angeles. I spent 6 years in New York’s foster care system before being adopted at age 7 and that lived experience fuels everything I teach and create here.
New Book: The Traumatized & At-Risk Youth Toolbox: amzn.to/3FxE2lD
✨Learn more about:
✨Real talk about adoption, foster care, and identity
✨Mental health tools for healing complex and developmental trauma
✨Creative therapeutic interventions for kids, teens, and families
✨Guidance and compassion for birth, foster, and adoptive parents
✨Insightful education for therapists, social workers, and educators
✨Resources for family preservation and open adoption support
For collaborations or speaking inquiries: jeanette@yoffetherapy.com
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Check out the HOSPITAL OF EMOTIONS - an abandoned hospital that everyone is talking about in Los Angeles. I went and was blown away...#art #losangeles
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Listen firsthand to one of the first Adoptees ever to write a memoir about adoption Betty Jeanne Lifton! ❤️ #adopteevoices
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For me, this isn’t just a cause it’s personal.
It’s the lived experience of being a foster youth… the longing for safety, the search for belonging, and the quiet hope that someone will truly see you. I would not be here without my Foster Family.
There are thousands of children right now carrying stories that deserve to be heard, not silenced. Stories of resilience. Of survival. Of strength beyond their years.
Healing begins when we create spaces where children feel safe, valued, and loved.
When we listen without judgment.
When we show up, consistently, compassionately, and wholeheartedly.
If you’ve ever wondered how you can help…
❤️ Become a @casa.la advocate for a child
❤️ Offer to provide respite for a foster parent
❤️ Share my column @psych_today with a foster parent, teacher, therapist or social worker. THE INNER LIFE OF FOSTER CARE
Be the one who sees them.
Be the one who stays.
Because one caring adult can change the entire trajectory of a child’s life.
#FosterCareAwarenessMonth #FosterCareJourney #TraumaInformed #FosterYouthVoices #ChangeALife JeanetteYoffe
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Who knew Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead was adopted??? He found both of his birth parents and had Reunion as an adult. He shares his story here check it out.
https://youtu.be/HJJm3cyLMmU?si=jkriR...
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I’m thrilled to share my interview with Bruce Duncan Perry M.D., Ph.D., a globally recognized pioneer in the neuroscience of trauma and child development. Dr. Perry’s work including the Neurosequential Model and his insights into how early adversity impacts brain function continues to shape best practices across clinical, educational, and policy settings.
In this discussion, we explore:
📌 The neurobiology of separation trauma
📌 Intra-uterine sensory experience
📌 Babies development attachment in the womb
This interview offers profound takeaways for practitioners, leaders, educators, and advocates committed to trauma-responsive systems.
@Jeanette-icallySpeaking #TraumaInformed #ChildDevelopment #Neuroscience #BrucePerry #JeanetteYoffe #childhoodtraum #adoptiontrauma #adoption #fostercare
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New video! Are the behaviors you're seeing typical or rooted in trauma? It's often very confusing to differentiate. 😩
I was interviewed on the Adoptive Mom Life podcast helping breakdown, normal versus trauma behaviors for adoptees. Bringing understanding and education on how to respond through a trauma informed lens. Listen here.
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Happy New Year and Thank YOU for visiting my channel this year! Over 1,000,000 views. 🥳🕊️❤️
I've been very busy writing articles and books about adoption, foster care and healing.
Here's my latest article in The Therapist magazine, and I am now a Psychology Today blog contributor. My column is called The Inner Life of Foster Care.
Learn more: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-inner-life-of-…
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Happy Thanksgiving and please also acknowledge The Ghost Kingdom of Thanksgiving: A Hidden World | Read my new blog on Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-inner-life-of-…
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In this challenging time right now. Let's be as one ---in hope! #peaceonearth
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The Traumatized & At-Risk Youth Toolbox Book is HERE! 🧰💥
I wrote this book for the children, teens and adults who’ve experienced the unthinkable—and YOU as an individual, and the professionals and parents who hold space for their healing.
Inside are over 160 creative, trauma-informed interventions designed to support foster youth, adoptees, and all children impacted by trauma, grief, and loss.
This toolbox was born from my own lived experience as a former foster youth and adoptee, and shaped by 20+ years of clinical work. It’s practical, heartfelt, and made for YOU—the healers, caregivers, therapists, and changemakers.
📕 Order your copy today: www.pesi.com/item/the-traumatized-atrisk-youth-too…
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