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

A Guide for White Parents of Mexican Adoptees Facing Political Trauma. Even if your child isn’t directly affected, the trauma of hearing about kids in cages or deported parents can reawaken their own fears of abandonment and loss. Many transracial adoptees grow up feeling like they don’t quite belong at home, at school, or in their community. When injustices happen to “people who look like me,” they feel it personally. Racial Identity Trauma is real.

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.

Discover wildfire mental health support for children with Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. Explore 6 interventions to foster resilience and stability.

The Wildfires can be overwhelming for children and adults alike. As a parent or caregiver, it’s important to provide emotional support.

Tips for Transitioning a foster child into your home and family is a delicate process that requires patience, empathy, and understanding.

Building trust in a foster family can be challenging but is essential for creating a stable and supportive environment for foster children.

Coping with Grief through the creative arts is a powerful tool is engaging in creative arts as a means to navigate the challenging journey.

Creating a timeline can be an empowering way for adult adoptees to understand and reflect on their life experiences. Here are the steps.

Why is Genetic Mirroring Important in Adoption? Because it provides a basis of familiarity with your cultural, ethnic, and racial roots.

Just because your child is not talking about a scary event, does not mean they are not actively thinking about it!

How to explain foster care to a child with Jeanette Yoffe, Foster Care Expert in Los Angeles

How to Talk With Children About Ukraine For Ages 6 and Up by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. “During times of stress and crisis, children will observe

How to Explain Adoption to a Child by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T. Sometimes families just can't live together and a plan for adoption is made...."

Understand there are 4 developmental tasks of adolescents explained by Jeanette Yoffe

Jeanette Yoffe explains excessive shame prevents the development of guilt and also prevents children from accepting responsibility. Learn...

Jeanette Yoffe says the best predictor of therapy having a good outcome, is the quality of “relationship” between the therapist and client.

Watch a training developed by Jeanette about Transracial Adoption and Understanding the impact of identity.

Recommended Therapy for Children in Foster Care and Adoption by Jeanette Yoffe M.F.T.

It isn't until a person who was adopted, an adoptee, grows into adulthood, they begin to realize the impact adoption has had on their life.