FREE monthly open support group for ADULT ADOPTEE MEMBERS of the Adoption Constellation.
A place for Adult Adoptees ONLY 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 Cathy Leckie Koley, Adoptee and Post-Adoption Coach.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th, 2021 5 pm – 7 pm PST 8 – 10 pm EST
Time and place are also shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
Cathy Leckie Koley BIO:
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instructor, Adoptee Speaker/ Writer / Educator. After reuniting with her birth family at age 43, Cathy found herself on an unexpected healing journey related to her own relinquishment. The process included yoga, through which she found significant healing, and a new career path. As a yoga teacher since 2012, Cathy teaches others about the adoptee experience, strategies for unearthing and healing adoption wounds, and mind-body practices that help with adoption-related difficulties. Trained in Trauma-Sensitive in 2014 with Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, and David Emerson, author of Overcoming Trauma through Yoga. Cathy is currently pursuing an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
FREE monthly open support group for ADULT ADOPTEE MEMBERS of the Adoption Constellation.
A place for Adult Adoptees 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 Cathy Leckie Koley, Adoptee and Post-Adoption Coach.
WEDNESDAY, June 9th, 2021 5 pm – 7 pm PST 8 – 10 pm EST
Time and place are also shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
Cathy Leckie Koley BIO:
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instructor, Adoptee Speaker/ Writer / Educator. After reuniting with her birth family at age 43, Cathy found herself on an unexpected healing journey related to her own relinquishment. The process included yoga, through which she found significant healing, and a new career path. As a yoga teacher since 2012, Cathy teaches others about the adoptee experience, strategies for unearthing and healing adoption wounds, and mind-body practices that help with adoption-related difficulties. Trained in Trauma-Sensitive in 2014 with Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, and David Emerson, author of Overcoming Trauma through Yoga. Cathy is currently pursuing an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
FREE Event. Colombian Adoptees Ages 16 & above to connect with each other to share stories, resources, and above all identity.
A support group for Colombian Adoptees, born in Colombia and adopted in the United States and beyond. A place to come together to share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, and build strong bonds and connections.
WEDNESDAY, May 12th, 2021 5 pm-7 pm Pacific Time 8 pm Eastern Time
Group Support: Learn the 7 Core Themes in Adoption to help you better understand the emotional and psychological impact of growing up as an adoptee. The Seven Core Issues are Loss, Rejection, Shame/Guilt, Grief, Identity, Intimacy, and Mastery/Control developed by Sharon Kaplan Roszia and Alison Davis Maxon.
The topic will be facilitated by Adoptions/Foster Care Psychotherapist, adult adoptee Jeanette Yoffe, MFT, founder of Celia Center.
Time and place are shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
The producers of Long Lost Family contacted Jeanette Yoffe, Founder of Celia Center to support a woman, Joanne, who found her birth father. Joanne wanted to join a local support group, to learn how to build a relationship with her long lost father, and balance her relationship with her step-father.
Watch and see how members of Adoption Constellation supported Joanne in Los Angeles on June 8, 2016.
Celia Center Adoption Constellation Support Group Community helps Joanne navigate a reunion with her birth father. Support Group facilitated by Founder, Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.
Celia Center was approached by OWN Television about their new show Raising Whitley. It is a humorous and poignant docu-series following actress and comedienne Kym Whitley and her riotous collective of friends–whom she calls “TheVillage”– as they attempt to do something none of them has ever done before–raise a child together.
Kym needed advice upon meeting with her foster-adoptive son’s birth mother. Watch as the Celia Center Community and Founder, Jeanette Yoffe support her on her journey.
Jeanette Yoffe was interviewed by Donna Montalbano for Adoption Discussions, WOON Rhode Island Radio about adoption and healing, helping Foster & Adoptive Families in Los Angeles. Click here to listen or download Part I... Click here to listen or...