Jess M. Jones, LCSW, LCSW-C

I’m a licensed clinical social worker with expertise in trauma-informed and evidence-based psychotherapies for adults, families, and children. I've also trained in legal psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy models using ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin. Currently, I'm working as a study therapist in clinical research using MDMA and psilocybin. I believe authentic relationships can be good medicine and that intergenerational cycles of trauma can be interrupted and healed. Issues of power, privilege, and systemic oppression are important and welcome in therapy. I aspire to anti-racist and culturally curious practice. Some of my identities are white, female, queer, Latina, spiritually-oriented, and able-bodied. I was raised Catholic and speaking Spanish and English in a bicultural household with an immigrant mother. From 2017-2022, I worked at a community mental health center within PennMedicine as a clinician and eventually a supervisor and program manager in the PHIICAPS program. PHIICAPS provides community-based intensive and brief attachment-oriented and trauma-focused family therapy, crisis support, and case management services to families where a child/youth has experienced psychiatric hospitalizations or other out-of-home placement. ​I'm certified in TF-CBT (trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy), EMDR (eye-movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy), and priCARE (Child-Adult Relationship Enhancement). I've also taken intro courses in MI (motivational interviewing), ABFT (attachment-based family therapy), CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy), exposure therapy for anxiety disorders (CBT Unified Protocol), Hakomi mindfulness based somatic therapy, and SE (somatic experiencing). I trained in KAP (ketamine-assisted psychotherapy) with Polaris Insight Center. I've nearly finished training as an MDMA-assisted therapist with MAPS and am certified in the EMBARK model with Cybin. I'm licensed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland. Daily meditation and yoga practices have shaped my life for over a decade. I completed a yoga teacher training (RYT-200) with Three Sisters Yoga in 2011 as well as a variety of certifications in teaching yoga in schools, with adolescents and adults experiencing homelessness, and incarcerated individuals. I have also completed several meditation retreats (vipassana in S.E. Goenka lineage 10-day and 3-day; tantric yoga meditation in Ananda Seva lineage at Dharmalaya in Eugene, OR, and others). My main practice is the Shambhala Tibetan buddhist approach taught by Pema Chödrön.