PSYCHOTHERAPIST: SOCIOLOGIST
Jessica M. Harrison, LCSW is a mental health clinician, a doctoral student of medical sociology, and an advocate for justice in society. Her multidisciplinary work includes psychotherapy and social science of reproductive health, mental health, stigma and normativity, and qualitative research methods.
Jessica is a PhD student of medical sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. As a scholar of the sociology of health and medicine, her research involves patient-provider interactions, medical ethics and decision-making, and the use of medical technologies, including pharmaceuticals, in the fields of mental and reproductive health. She is particularly interested in the functions of normativity, stigma, and power in women's health care environments, and the ways in which women's bodies are surveilled. As a clinician-sociologist hybrid, her work in the field consistently inspires her research questions; and sociology has given her a language and framework to address the large questions evoked by her therapeutic work with individuals. She is motivated to contribute to sociological insights that may inform health care practice and propel solutions to address inequalities in medicine.
As a clinical social worker for 14 years, Jessica has extensive experience providing mental health care in diverse settings. She believes in the powerful function of the therapeutic relationship to reduce isolation and improve well-being. Toward her clinical work, Jessica has advanced training through the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Postpartum Support International, the Marce Society, The American Adoption Congress, the Adoption Initiative, and the Harvard Program for Global Mental Health, among others. She has experience as a birth and postpartum doula, which allows her to offer practical care in the therapeutic context. As a sociologist, her research supports her in linking the impacts of society, relationships, various environments, and health care systems to the lived experience of her individual clients. Most profoundly, she has been gifted a priceless education provided by her beloved clients, her greatest teachers.
To contact Jessica with academic inquiries, send an email to jessica.harrison[at]ucsf.edu. Direct general inquiries to jessmharr10[at]gmail.com. Find her on twitter @jessharr10.
Jessica is a PhD student of medical sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. As a scholar of the sociology of health and medicine, her research involves patient-provider interactions, medical ethics and decision-making, and the use of medical technologies, including pharmaceuticals, in the fields of mental and reproductive health. She is particularly interested in the functions of normativity, stigma, and power in women's health care environments, and the ways in which women's bodies are surveilled. As a clinician-sociologist hybrid, her work in the field consistently inspires her research questions; and sociology has given her a language and framework to address the large questions evoked by her therapeutic work with individuals. She is motivated to contribute to sociological insights that may inform health care practice and propel solutions to address inequalities in medicine.
As a clinical social worker for 14 years, Jessica has extensive experience providing mental health care in diverse settings. She believes in the powerful function of the therapeutic relationship to reduce isolation and improve well-being. Toward her clinical work, Jessica has advanced training through the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Postpartum Support International, the Marce Society, The American Adoption Congress, the Adoption Initiative, and the Harvard Program for Global Mental Health, among others. She has experience as a birth and postpartum doula, which allows her to offer practical care in the therapeutic context. As a sociologist, her research supports her in linking the impacts of society, relationships, various environments, and health care systems to the lived experience of her individual clients. Most profoundly, she has been gifted a priceless education provided by her beloved clients, her greatest teachers.
To contact Jessica with academic inquiries, send an email to jessica.harrison[at]ucsf.edu. Direct general inquiries to jessmharr10[at]gmail.com. Find her on twitter @jessharr10.