STAFF
Meet the people that make us who we are today...
Jeanette Yoffe
Executive Director
M.A. , M.F.T
jeanette@yoffetherapy.com
Jeanette has been in the field for
over 20 years. She has worked
as a psychotherapist, 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 Department of Mental Health. She holds trainings for parents, social workers, and therapists on topics related to adoption & foster care challenges, parenting, the impact of pre-adoption trauma, grief/loss, open adoption, open foster care, attachment challenges and has support for adult adoptees and foster youth searching for long lost family members, as well as reunion.
Suzan Olson Davis
Child, Family, Adult Clinician
A.M.F.T.
Suzan is certified and trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
helping you build skill sets for coping with emotional dysregulation, difficulty communicating in social, emotional relationships, and feeling overwhelmed by life stressors.
She specializes in working with all clients in the adoption constellation i.e. birth parents, adoptees and adoptive parents. For over two decades she has also worked in the entertainment industry and is familiar with the struggles of those in the creative professions face. Her personal journey as an adoptive mother, in an open adoption, has helped her gain a deep understanding of the complex vulnerabilities for those in the adoption community experience.
Cibele Sousa
Family Clinician
M.A , M.F.T
Cibele helps clients connect their body/inner strengths and their mind/rational strengths to achieve change and personal growth. With kindness, compassion, and mindfulness, she creates a safe and nurturing space where clients feel seen and heard. She has success working with clients with stress, anxiety, depression, cancer recovery, surgical preparation/recovery, family preservation due to divorce or separation, high conflict couples, and chronic illness. Trained in Trauma Release Exercise NeuroAffective, SMART Recovery, Reconnect Integrative Trauma Treatment Model and Resilience ToolKit. She is fluent in Portugese.