Unearthing Adoption: Normalizing Positive Perspectives

Episode 51 - Jeanette Yoffe, M.A, M.F.T

Jeanette has been an adoption therapist and foster care therapist in Los Angeles for over 20 years. She has worked also as a keynote speaker, training developer, associate therapist supervisor, foster care social worker, and is the clinical director of Yoffe Therapy Inc. She has trained social workers and therapists in trauma-informed practice for the Los Angeles County Child and Family Services and the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health. She also holds training for parents, social workers, and therapists on topics related to adoption and foster care challenges, parenting, the impact of pre-adoption trauma, grief/loss, open adoption, open foster care, attachment challenges and provides support to adult adoptees and foster youth searching for long lost family members, as well as assists in reunion and family reunification. View her trainings on her YouTube Channel @Jeanette-ically Speaking About Adoption, Foster Care & Mental Health. She is also the founder of Celia Center, a non-profit organization supporting all members in the adoption constellation via support groups, adoptee arts festivals, foster youth arts festivals, wolf healings, sailing and fishing and mental health conferences. https://yoffetherapy.com/jeanette-yoffe/

Episode 50 - Rich Uhrlaub (Part Two)

There really isn't much Rich Uhrlaub can't or won't do for the adoption community. He is truly dedicated to the adoptee community - politically, socially, musically, poetically, and spiritually. You can find Rich: Here (For the Records): https://www.ftrmusical.com Here (Adoption Search Resource Collection): https://www.asrconline.org/board-bios

Episode 50 - Rich Uhrlaub (Part One)

There really isn't much Rich Uhrlaub can't or won't do for the adoption community. He is truly dedicated to the adoptee community - politically, socially, musically, poetically, and spiritually. You can find Rich: Here (For the Records): https://www.ftrmusical.com Here (Adoption Search Resource Collection): https://www.asrconline.org/board-bios

Episode 49 - Joy Conway on Owning Your Adoption Story

Join us as Joy Conway shares her adoption story. Joy emphasized the importance of being confident in your journey, the importance of setting boundaries, and the healing that can come from creative processes. You can find Joy on YouTube Follow us on Instagram @unearthingadoption E-mail us! unearthingadoption@gmail.com

Episode 48 - Nadya Ierna, Adoption Story and Senior Project

Nadya Ierna hopped on the podcast to talk to us today about her adoption story and her senior project and presentation.