Yoffe Therapy

09/23/2025

✨ We had an amazing Open House this week! ✨
Children, teens and parents are already loving our new office space 💜💙
Thank you to all for attending!

💡 Don’t miss your chance to join us for our final Open House:
📅 Tuesday, September 30th
🕣 8:30am – 10:00am
📍 Yoffe Therapy

You’ll also get to Learn 5 Hacks for Parenting in the 21st Century with our extraordinary Associate Therapist, Lauri Greenberg, AMFT. 🌟

Come connect, explore our new space, and leave with practical tools for today’s parenting journey. We can’t wait to welcome you!

Yoffe Therapy

09/22/2025

A new study out of UNC Nutrition Research Institute shows alcohol reshapes the whole pregnancy environment, not just the fetus. It can shift the mother’s microbiome, trigger inflammation, limit nutrients and oxygen by impairing the placenta, and even reflect the father’s preconception drinking through s***m epigenetics. These linked pathways suggest prevention strategies like microbiome support, reducing inflammation, and ensuring iron and glucose reach the baby. For further reading: uncnri.org/2025/08/14/beyond-direct-damage-how-alcohol-alters-the-entire-pregnancy-environment/

09/19/2025

Please join us tomorrow for our 2nd Open House Saturday, 9/20 12-3pm. Calling all adoptive and foster families, adoptees, foster alumni. Join us and let's talk about healing! A New Chapter. A New Healing Space.

We are thrilled to announce the grand opening of our brand-new psychotherapy office in the heart of Mar Vista!

In 2020, our Westwood office closed its doors during the COVID-19 pandemic. After 5 years of working exclusively online, Yoffe Therapy finally has a new home — a safe and welcoming space where healing, connection, and community can flourish once again.

Yoffe Therapy is devoted to supporting individuals and families connected by adoption, foster care, trauma, grief, and loss. This new space is more than an office, it’s a place to gather, restore, and grow.

✨ We’re back IN PERSON! After 5 years, Yoffe Therapy has a new home in Mar Vista. 🎉 Join us for our Open House → Sept 20!

09/13/2025

✨ We Have a New Home in Mar Vista!✨

After 5 years of being exclusively online, Yoffe Therapy is opening the doors to our brand-new office in the heart of Mar Vista! What was once a dream after closing our Westwood office during COVID is now a reality...a safe, welcoming space for healing, connection, and community.

Yoffe Therapy specializes in supporting individuals and families connected by adoption, foster care, trauma, grief, and loss. This new space is more than just an office, it’s a place to gather, restore, and grow.

🌟 Join us as we celebrate this exciting new chapter! Meet our Adoption Competent therapists Jennifer Seidner, Lauri Greenberg, Susan Olson Davis along with our Director, Connect with community members and be among the first to experience our inspiring new healing space.

We’re also proud to share this home with our nonprofit partner dedicated to serving the Los Angeles adoption and foster care community.

09/13/2025

✨ We Have a New Home in Mar Vista!✨

After 5 years of being exclusively online, Yoffe Therapy is opening the doors to our brand-new office in the heart of Mar Vista! What was once a dream after closing our Westwood office during COVID is now a reality...a safe, welcoming space for healing, connection, and community.

Yoffe Therapy specializes in supporting individuals and families connected by adoption, foster care, trauma, grief, and loss. This new space is more than just an office, it’s a place to gather, restore, and grow**.

🌟 Join us as we celebrate this exciting new chapter! Meet our Adoption Competent therapists Jennifer Seidner, Lauri Greenberg, Susan Olson Davis along with our Director, Connect with community members and be among the first to experience our inspiring new healing space.

We’re also proud to share this home with our nonprofit partner dedicated to serving the Los Angeles adoption and foster care community.

09/12/2025

✨ We Have a New Home in Mar Vista!✨

After 5 years of being exclusively online, Yoffe Therapy is opening the doors to our brand-new office in the heart of Mar Vista! What was once a dream after closing our Westwood office during COVID is now a reality...a safe, welcoming space for healing, connection, and community.

Yoffe Therapy specializes in supporting individuals and families connected by adoption, foster care, trauma, grief, and loss. This new space is more than just an office, it’s a place to gather, restore, and grow**.

🌟 Join us as we celebrate this exciting new chapter! Meet our Adoption Competent therapists Jennifer Seidner, Lauri Greenberg, Susan Olson Davis along with our Director, Jeanette Yoffe Connect with community members and be among the first to experience our inspiring new healing space.

We’re also proud to share this home with Celia Center, Inc. our nonprofit partner dedicated to serving the Los Angeles adoption and foster care community.

08/28/2025

How to Talk with Kids After a Tragedy
This is a helpful two‑page guide from Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health titled How to Talk to Kids Following Tragedy, to share, especially for parents, caregivers, and educators processing the recent tragedy in Minneapolis. Download here:
https://macmh.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/How-to-Talk-to-Kids-Following-Tragedy.pdf

07/30/2025

Creating a Family strengthens foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them by creating expert-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training.

05/27/2025

🚨📘 In ONE WEEK - IT'S HERE! 📘🚨
At Yoffe Therapy we are beyond proud to announce the release of our directors new book, The Traumatized & At-Risk Youth Toolbox!

This book is a hands-on guide packed with over 160 creative, trauma-informed interventions designed for therapists, educators, caregivers, and advocates working with vulnerable youth. It's built from years of clinical experience and heart-led healing, offering real-world tools to help young people feel seen, heard, and supported.

Whether you're in the therapy room, classroom, or group home—this book will be your go-to resource for empowering change, building resilience, and restoring hope.

💥 Let’s help our youth heal with intention, creativity, and compassion.

📚 Grab your copy today and fill your toolbox with strategies that truly make a difference:
👉 https://www.pesi.com/item/the-traumatized-atrisk-youth-toolbox-150079

In The Traumatized and At-Risk Youth Toolbox, you’ll find a variety of adaptable trauma-and attachment-informed interventions for working with these children, drawn from play therapy, art therapy, psy

05/27/2025

Toxic stress isn't just a buzzword—it's a critical concept in understanding how early adversity can shape a child's future.

When children face prolonged challenges like abuse, neglect, or poverty without supportive relationships, their stress response systems can become overactivated, leading to long-term impacts on brain development and health. The Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University explains how these experiences can disrupt neural connections and increase risks for issues like heart disease and depression later in life.

But there's hope. Supportive, responsive relationships with caring adults can buffer these effects, promoting resilience and healthy development. It's a powerful reminder that nurturing environments and informed policies are essential to protect our children's well-being.

Learn more about toxic stress and how we can make a difference:

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/key-concept/toxic-stress/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=may2025

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Toxic stress can disrupt the healthy development of brain architecture and other bodily systems, increasing risk for stress-related disease well into adulthood.