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Jennifer L. Jackson, PhD

Montclair,NJ

Summary

Experienced clinical professional with a robust and diverse background in psychological services. Dedicated to improving patients' mental health and overall well-being through comprehensive care. Skilled in creating personalized treatment plans and conducting thorough assessments to provide tailored support. Effective collaborator and adept at adapting to team environments for high-quality patient care. Committed to making a meaningful impact on clients' lives through compassionate care and evidence-based practices.

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Self-employed
01.2005 - Current
  • Provide psychotherapy to individuals, couples and families.
  • Work with children, adolescents and adults utilizing psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches to treatment, including DBT, EMDR, mindfulness and somatic informed treatments.
  • Developed and facilitated Mindfulness based DBT informed group for young adults with anxiety spectrum disorders. Group designed to support and reduce isolation in young adults ages 20-30 years old.
  • Treated various anxiety disorders, using exposure therapies such as in vivo, and imaginal exposure.
  • Provide supervision and consultation for early career therapists.

Consultant/Facilitator

SiSu App
11.2022 - 02.2023
  • Company Overview: Mental Health Wellness Tools for Teens
  • Provided consultation and facilitation of adolescents for the production of new wellness app designed to give teens tools to deal with their anxiety and grief.
  • Worked with producers to develop the appropriate clinical based tools for managing anxiety to be featured in the app.
  • As part of the film production team, facilitated adolescent actors to talk about their experiences in dealing with their anxiety.


Licensed Psychologist

Self- Employed
01.2005 - 05.2020
  • Provided individual, couple and family psychotherapy
  • Work with children, adolescents and adults utilizing psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches to treatment

Staff Psychologist

Montclair Counseling Center
08.2007 - 02.2011
  • Part of a team of therapists providing low fee therapeutic services for the community. Worked with children, adolescents and families to improve mental health. Also provided treatment for adults.
  • Collaborated with Montclair School District to develop and facilitate social skills and support groups in the elementary, middle and high school.
  • Specialties included: life transitions, identity development, adoption, family conflict/stress, anxiety and depression.

Staff Psychologist

Positive Developments
08.2008 - 05.2010
  • Provide therapeutic services for children and adolescents and families
  • Focus on anxiety, depression and family conflict

Licensed Psychologist

Institute for Performance Advancement
09.2006 - 07.2009
  • Provided individual psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults dealing with anxiety, depression and general mood instability.
  • Therapeutic interventions included, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and family systems treatment approaches.

Psychologist

Institute for Performance Advancement/Private Practice
08.2003 - 07.2009
  • Provide therapeutic services for children, adolescents and adult clients; utilized family systems, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral interventions
  • Managed caseload of individual clients, couples, and family therapy sessions.
  • Developed customized treatment plans for clients, addressing their unique psychological needs and goals.

Group Therapist

Gay Men’s Health Crisis
06.2005 - 03.2008
  • Facilitate weekly psychotherapeutic support group for HIV+ men with co-morbid substance use and recovery issues

Assistant Director, Counseling and Support Services

Gay Men’s Health Crisis
09.2003 - 06.2005
  • Company Overview: Non-Profit
  • Oversaw Group Services for HIV/AIDS organization.
  • Supervised 2 staff and 20 volunteer clinicians facilitating weekly grief groups for men living with HIV/AIDS
  • Provided clinical training and supervision for staff and volunteers to improve client outcomes and engagement
  • Provided clinical support and consultation regarding groups throughout the agency
  • Facilitated weekly support groups for long term survivors of HIV and those unhoused individuals.



Coordinator, Group Services

Gay Men’s Health Crisis
08.2003 - 01.2004
  • Company Overview: Non-Profit
  • Supervised and facilitated weekly therapeutic groups for men and women with HIV/AIDS
  • Provided weekly psychosocial assessments of clients for group placement
  • Trained and supervised volunteer clinicians
  • Non-Profit

Clinical Psychology Fellow

Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish/North Shore Medical Center
09.2002 - 08.2003
  • Day Hospital, Hillside Hospital – Provided bi-weekly individual, family and milieu-based treatment to children and adolescents diagnosed with ADHD, depression and psychotic disorders.
  • Schneider Children’s Hospital Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Department – Provided individual, family and group psychotherapeutic services to children, adolescents and adults.

Psychology Intern

Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island Jewish/North Shore Medical Center
09.2001 - 09.2002
  • Psychology Internship - worked in the inpatient and outpatient units of the hospital. Rotations included: Eating Disorders, Adolescent Inpatient Unit, Child Inpatient Unit, and Neuropsychological Testing.
  • Trained in: DBT, CBT & Structural Family Therapy
  • Population Treated: Patients diagnosed with BPD, ADHD, MDD, ODD, CDD, PDD and the range of depressive and anxiety disorders.

Co-therapist, Group for Parents of Oppositional Adolescents

Columbia Presbyterian, Babies Hospital
09.2000 - 01.2002
  • Co-lead 12-week manualized treatment group for parents of adolescents with conduct problems
  • The intervention was a part of a research project studying the prevention of relationship violence in youth
  • Attended weekly group supervision

Practicum Therapist

Center for Educational and Psychological Services, Teachers College, Columbia University
09.1998 - 08.2001
  • Provided weekly and biweekly psychotherapy to children, adolescent and adult clients in the Teachers College clinic
  • Participated in individual and group supervision for children, adolescent and adult clients
  • Trained in play therapy for child clients and psychodynamic therapy for adults

Mental Health Liaison

Sponsors for Educational Opportunities
09.2000 - 07.2001
  • Provided therapeutic support for staff and students in a college prep program serving New York City junior high and high school students
  • Met weekly with staff and student to assess needs and to help develop overall academic program that also address emotional needs of students
  • Developed database of psychological and psychoeducational services in New York City for staff use to refer students and their families

Psychology Extern

Children’s Day Treatment Unit, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
09.2000 - 05.2001
  • Conducted individual and group psychotherapy with adolescent patients in day treatment program
  • Patient diagnosis included depression, anxiety, psychosis, and oppositional deviant disorder
  • Conducted neuropsychological testing and assessment of children and adolescent patients
  • Participated in individual and group supervision

Consultant

National Council of Churches
06.2000 - 08.2000
  • Provided programmatic and fiscal consultation for programmatic close-out of nationally based AmeriCorps Program

Consultant

21st Century Women’s Leadership Center
05.2000 - 07.2000
  • Contracted to complete 1023 application for non-profit (501c3) status for new start-up organization
  • Provided narrative and fiscal data write-up of IRS application

Program Officer

The Corporation for National Service
09.1995 - 08.1997
  • Oversaw and managed the operations of AmeriCorps grants funded through National State Commissions on community service
  • Provided programmatic oversight and evaluation for State Commissions in New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Vermont
  • Participated in development and implementation of funding guidelines for community service-based programs

Administrator

A.K. Rice Institute
09.1994 - 06.1997
  • Organized and implemented the administrative and fiscal operations of organizational psychology institute

Resident Counselor

Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
06.1994 - 08.1995
  • Counselor for 550 adolescents, 12-16 years old
  • Provided crisis management, training and intervention for students and resident staff
  • Worked with staff and teachers to provide emotional and academic support for students with depression, homesickness and learning disabilities

Relief Counselor

Northampton Center for Children and Families
06.1991 - 07.1993
  • Worked as a Relief Counselor in residential program for emotionally disturbed adolescent girls ages 12-17
  • Monitored residents’ individual and daily treatment plans
  • Provided on-site counseling and behavior interventions

Dorm Supervisor, Student Affairs

Hampshire College
08.1990 - 06.1993
  • Supervised first-year student dorm of 300 students, including 8 residential assistants and an office of two professional staff
  • Provided on-call crisis intervention for students and staff
  • Trained student staff in counseling and crisis intervention

Education

Ph.D. - Clinical Psychology

Columbia University, Teachers College
02.2003

Ed.M. - Human Development and Psychology

Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, MA
06.1994

B.A. - Government

Smith College
Northampton, MA
06.1990

Skills

  • Anxiety management
  • Mindfulness techniques
  • Clinical assessment
  • Diagnosis formulation
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy facilitation
  • Multicultural competence
  • Grief and loss support

Affiliations

  • American Psychological Association
  • New Jersey Psychological Association
  • NJ Association of Black Psychologists
  • Past, A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems, New York Associate
  • Past, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Association, Member

Presentations

  • A DBT Informed Mindfulness-Based Group Model to Treat Anxiety Spectrum Disorders, International Psychological Association, September 2024
  • Creative Clinical Skills to Enhance Client Engagement, May 2005, 20th Annual Gay Men’s Health Crisis Volunteer Conference, New York, NY
  • Early On-set Schizophrenia in Children: the case of A.J., March 2003, Schneider Children’s/ Hillside Hospital Grand Rounds, New Hyde Park, NY
  • Establishing the Reliability of the Jackson Authority Rating Scale (JARS) for the Relatedness at Work Inventory, Spring 2000, Teachers College Clinical Psychology Program Colloquium, New York, NY
  • Worth a Thousand Words: Using the Relatedness at Work Instrument (RWI), Aug 1998, American Psychological Association 106th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
  • A Black Female’s Examination of Self: Intersectional Identity and Group Dynamics, MAy 1995, Twelfth Biannual Scientific Meeting of the AK Rice Institute, Washington, DC

Clinical Counseling Experience

  • Licensed Psychologist, Montclair, NJ, 01/01/05 - present
  • Licensed Psychologist, Summit & Montclair, NJ, 01/01/05 - 05/01/20
  • Licensed Psychologist, New York, NY, 09/01/06 - 07/01/09
  • Staff Psychologist, Montclair, NJ, 08/01/07 - 02/01/11
  • Staff Psychologist, Milburn, NJ, 08/01/08 - 05/01/10
  • Psychologist, New York, NY, 08/01/03 - 07/01/09
  • Group Therapist, New York, NY, 06/01/05 - 03/01/08
  • Assistant Director, Counseling and Support Services, New York, NY, 09/01/03 - 06/01/05
  • Clinical Psychology Fellow, New York, NY, 09/01/02 - 08/01/03
  • Psychology Intern, New York, NY, 09/01/01 - 09/01/02
  • Psychology Extern, New York, NY, 09/01/00 - 05/01/01
  • Co-therapist, New York, NY, 09/01/00 - 01/01/02
  • Practicum Therapist, New York, NY, 09/01/98 - 08/01/01
  • Resident Counselor, Baltimore, MD, Summer 1994, 1995
  • Relief Counselor, Northampton, MA, 06/01/91 - 07/01/93
  • Dorm Supervisor, Amherst, MA, 08/01/90 - 06/01/93

Consultation Training

  • Consultant, Authority and Leadership, 11/01/06, New York, NY
  • Associate Director, Authority and Leadership, 11/01/03, New York, NY
  • Consultant, Authority, Leadership & Organisation: the Leicester Conference, 04/01/02, London, England
  • Consultant, Culture and Color, 03/01/02, New York, NY
  • Consultant, Authority & Leadership, 08/01/00, Bryn Mawr, PA
  • Consultant, Authority, Leadership & Organisation: the Leicester Conference, 04/01/99, London, England
  • Consultant, Authority & Leadership, 02/01/99, New York, NY
  • Consultant, Authority & Leadership in Diverse Organizations, 01/01/99, Chicago, IL
  • Co-consultant, William Alanston White Institute, Summer Training Program, 06/01/97, New York, NY
  • Conference Associate Director of Administration, Authority and Diversity, 05/01/97, Washington, DC
  • Co-consultant, Stone Center, Wellesley College, 12/01/96, Wellesley, MA

Organizational Professional Development

  • Participant, Authority, Leadership & Organisation, 04/01/98, Leicester, England
  • Participant, Leadership & Partnership in the 21st Century, 01/01/97, Holyoke, MA
  • Participant, Authority & Identity, 10/01/94, College Park, MD
  • Participant, Authority & Education, 02/01/94, Washington, DC
  • Participant, Groups in Schools, 11/01/93, Cambridge, MA

Certification

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Certified Therapist (EMDR) - EMDR International Association.
  • Licensed Psychologist - NY & NJ Board of Psychology.

Timeline

Consultant/Facilitator

SiSu App
11.2022 - 02.2023

Staff Psychologist

Positive Developments
08.2008 - 05.2010

Staff Psychologist

Montclair Counseling Center
08.2007 - 02.2011

Licensed Psychologist

Institute for Performance Advancement
09.2006 - 07.2009

Group Therapist

Gay Men’s Health Crisis
06.2005 - 03.2008

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Self-employed
01.2005 - Current

Licensed Psychologist

Self- Employed
01.2005 - 05.2020

Assistant Director, Counseling and Support Services

Gay Men’s Health Crisis
09.2003 - 06.2005

Psychologist

Institute for Performance Advancement/Private Practice
08.2003 - 07.2009

Coordinator, Group Services

Gay Men’s Health Crisis
08.2003 - 01.2004

Clinical Psychology Fellow

Hillside Hospital, Long Island Jewish/North Shore Medical Center
09.2002 - 08.2003

Psychology Intern

Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island Jewish/North Shore Medical Center
09.2001 - 09.2002

Co-therapist, Group for Parents of Oppositional Adolescents

Columbia Presbyterian, Babies Hospital
09.2000 - 01.2002

Mental Health Liaison

Sponsors for Educational Opportunities
09.2000 - 07.2001

Psychology Extern

Children’s Day Treatment Unit, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
09.2000 - 05.2001

Consultant

National Council of Churches
06.2000 - 08.2000

Consultant

21st Century Women’s Leadership Center
05.2000 - 07.2000

Practicum Therapist

Center for Educational and Psychological Services, Teachers College, Columbia University
09.1998 - 08.2001

Program Officer

The Corporation for National Service
09.1995 - 08.1997

Administrator

A.K. Rice Institute
09.1994 - 06.1997

Resident Counselor

Center for Talented Youth, Johns Hopkins University
06.1994 - 08.1995

Relief Counselor

Northampton Center for Children and Families
06.1991 - 07.1993

Dorm Supervisor, Student Affairs

Hampshire College
08.1990 - 06.1993

Ed.M. - Human Development and Psychology

Harvard University, Graduate School of Education

B.A. - Government

Smith College

Ph.D. - Clinical Psychology

Columbia University, Teachers College

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