Foster Care, Adoption & Healing | Psychotherapist Jeanette Yoffe on Growing Up Adopted

What is it really like growing up in foster care and being adopted?

In this powerful episode of the A Act of Love Adoptions Podcast, we're joined by Jeanette Yoffe—an adoptee, former foster youth, licensed psychotherapist, author, speaker, and founder of the Celia Center. Drawing from both her personal experience and nearly two decades of professional work, Jeanette shares valuable insights into foster care, adoption, attachment, trauma, healing, and building healthy family relationships.

Jeanette's journey has inspired thousands. She is the creator of the popular YouTube channel Jeanette-ically Speaking, where her educational videos on foster care and adoption have reached hundreds of thousands of viewers. She has also appeared on OWN, TLC, ABC, Spectrum News, Las Vegas News, the Hope Channel, and on television programs including Long Lost Family and Raising Whitley, helping educate audiences about adoption and foster care.

In this episode, we discuss:
Growing up in foster care
The adoptee perspective
Trauma and healing
Attachment and identity
Parenting adopted children
Foster care education
Supporting birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families

Whether you're an adoptee, foster parent, adoptive parent, birth parent, or adoption professional, this conversation offers compassionate guidance, practical advice, and hope.

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