FREE monthly open support group for Teen Adoptees, Foster-Adoptees, and current Foster Youth Ages 13-17.
A place for teens to come together to share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, and build strong bonds and connections. We will have GUEST ADULT ADOPTEES attend to inspire the teens. If you are an adult adoptee and would like to attend please email info@celiacenter.org
The group is facilitated by Adoptions/Foster Care Psychotherapist, and adult adoptee Jeanette Yoffe, MFT, founder of Celia Center, and Ron Jenkins. Both Facilitators were Foster-Adopted.
7 – 8:30 pm Pacific Time
Time and place are shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings will be held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
FREE monthly open support group for Teen Adoptees, Foster-Adoptees and current Foster Youth Ages 13-17.
A place for teens to come together to share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, and build strong bonds and connections. We will have GUEST ADULT ADOPTEES attend to inspire the teens. If you are an adult adoptee and would like to attend please email info@celiacenter.org
The group is facilitated by Adoptions/Foster Care Psychotherapist, adult adoptee Jeanette Yoffe, MFT, founder of Celia Center, and Ron Jenkins. Both Facilitators were Foster-Adopted.
7 – 8:30 pm Pacific Time
Time and place are shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
FREE monthly open support group for Teen Adoptees and Foster-Adoptees Ages 13-17
A place for teens to come together to share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, and build strong bonds and connections. We will have GUEST ADULT ADOPTEE’S attend to inspire the teens. If you are an adult adoptee and would like to attend please email info@celiacenter.org
The group is facilitated by Adoptions/Foster Care Psychotherapist, adult adoptee Jeanette Yoffe, MFT, founder of Celia Center.
7 – 8:30 pm Pacific Time
Time and place are shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
Featuring Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., M.F.T., Marriage and Family Therapist, founder and executive director of the Celia Center. 5 Hours of Continuing Education.
Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. became the Executive Director of the Celia Center, Inc. Founded July 16, 2011.
Jeanette was inspired in 2007, after working for five years, as a Foster Care Social Worker and Psychotherapist, with the agency, Southern California Foster Family Agency, now named, Extraordinary Families. She went on maternity leave, became a mother, and started a private practice working with families connected by foster care and adoption, she named Yoffe Therapy. In 2009, she could see foster and adoptive parents did not understand the foster care experience, let alone the adoptee experience. It was then, that she started the Adopt Salon Support Group, to bring adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents together to bridge compassion and understanding with the vision to create as many of these services as possible for the Los Angeles Community, those including mental health conferences, arts festivals, and wolf healings. Thus creating a place called Celia Center, named after her first-birth mother, Celia, whom she had reunion with in
Jeanette’s desire to become a child 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 in New York City. Her personal experience has informed her education and provided insight into the unique stresses involved with these issues. Because of Jeanette’s life experience she can more easily connect and relate to the children and teens she works with. She is an exceptional child-care worker who is dedicated to helping each of her clients reach their full potential through mental health therapy and make the difficult journey from despair towards resiliency and hope.
Listen to her One Woman Play, “What’s Your Name, Who’s Your Daddy?” written in 1999, which inspired her to leave the theater and become a professional in the field. Listen HERE
