The Inner Courtroom Intervention: A Practice for Trauma Survivors by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. Purpose: To externalize internalized shame, betrayal, and unresolved anger by symbolically placing a perpetrator, nemesis, rejector, or critic on trial. This allows the client to express truths, challenge harmful narratives, and restore justice within their own psyche. Who Can Be Put on Trial? A perpetrator of abuse or harm, a parent who abandoned or neglected, person who rejected, si
Every adopted child carries invisible threads of curiosity—questions about where they came from, who their birth family might be, and what life could have looked like in a different world. This inner world is what psychologist Betty Jean Lifton called the “Ghost Kingdom”...an imagined space where children fill in the blanks of their story.
Jeanette writes about many topics related to mental health, growing up in foster care and adoption, foster and adoptive parenting, and best practices in mental health for children, teens, adults, and their families.
