is a deeply attuned psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, guide facilitator and coach who integrates harm reduction, Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and economic human rights into healing spaces for individuals and professionals navigating complex identities and systems.
Jennifer C. Jones,
PhD, LCSW
About Jennifer
Jennifer is a multi-racial African American, queer cisgender woman and clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience. She brings an integrative, justice-rooted lens to her work, combining principles from Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), harm reduction, and an economics human rights perspective. Her practice is grounded in deep care for people navigating the intersections of identity, trauma, and systemic oppression. Jennifer brings remarkable clarity and a welcoming, compassionate, warm and caring presence to all of her work.
Jennifer is a parent of a college student, an animal lover, a meditation student, loves to laugh and finds a sense of awe among old growth trees, mountains, and large bodies of water. Her commitment to global justice is rooted in her belief in the unity of the poor and dispossessed and the necessity of organizing across color lines to secure economic human rights for all.
Services
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
Jennifer offers IFS psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and groups. Her clients include those who identify as lesbian, gay, queer, bisexual, transgender, gender non-binary, people of color, sex workers, substance users, people living with HIV, and those experiencing class oppression or healing from physical, spiritual, or emotional pain. She also supports people who need support integrating their psychedelic experiences. Her therapeutic work is influenced by Gestalt Therapy, trauma-informed, affirming, and rooted in a deep trust in your inner wisdom and a commitment to expansive, embodied healing.
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IFS Coaching
Jennifer offers coaching and consultation for leaders and organizations seeking to develop a more inclusive organizational culture that promotes both belonging and high quality performance. She has ample experience supporting organizations to enhance their policies regarding ethical psychedelic practice and to strengthen their justice, equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives while working across diverse social locations. She has served as a JEDI consultant for Lykos (formerly MAPS MPBC) and co-founded Rising Caps Collective to support healing from the legacies of colonization, slavery, and capitalism. Her coaching is especially relevant for professionals engaging with communities impacted by systemic harm.
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Clinical Supervision
Jennifer provides IFS- and Gestalt Therapy-informed clinical supervision for social workers, mental health professionals, and psychedelic-assisted practitioners, drawing from decades of experience and a commitment to ethical, justice-informed practice. Her supervision incorporates frameworks such as trauma-informed care, embodied Gestalt Therapy, IFS and economic human rights. She has trained clinicians in topics such as suicide assessment, trauma, grief and loss, sexual abuse, supporting racially-traumatized clients, working with transgender clients, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and sex work affirmative care.
Approach & Frameworks
Jennifer’s work is shaped by Gestalt Therapy principles, the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model, harm reduction, and an economic human rights framework. She creates healing spaces that acknowledge structural oppression while honoring individual and collective resilience. Jennifer supports her clients in learning to trust their own innate inner healing intelligence and sense of connection to something larger than themselves. Her approach is relational, embodied, and grounded in the belief that healing is personal, spiritual and political.
Who Jennifer Works With
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Trauma Survivors
Healing from emotional, physical, or spiritual pain.
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LGBTQIA+ Individuals & Couples
Affirming care for queer, trans, and gender-expansive folks.
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BIPOC Professionals in Predominantly White Spaces
Addressing stress, isolation, oppression and racial identity development and struggles.
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Immigrants & First-Gen Americans
Navigating displacement, loss, belonging, and cultural adaptation.
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Multiracial Couples & Families
Understanding the intersections of race, culture, and class in relationships.
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White-Identifying Individuals
Reflecting on racial identity, privilege, and systemic impact.
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College Students
Supporting self-exploration and life transitions.
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Exploring Sex & Sexuality
Creating a safe, shame-free space for exploration and learning how to increase sexual pleasure.
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Ancestral & Intergenerational Trauma
Uncovering and healing inherited family pain and patterns.
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Individuals Seeking Scar Remediation
Releasing, through massage, the traumatic memories and physical pain held in scars, surrounding tissues and muscles due to injury or medical procedures.
Experience & Leadership
In addition to her therapeutic and supervisory work, Jennifer has over two decades of experience developing and facilitating workshops and trainings on topics including trauma, grief and loss, suicide assessment, trauma-informed care in medical settings, working with transgender clients, sex work affirmative care, and healing through social location and rupture-repair processes. She has taught in the MSW programs at Widener and Temple Universities, and joined the adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work and Social Policy in January 2024. Jennifer also was a supervisor and member of the faculty at the Gestalt Training Institute of Philadelphia (GTIP) and served as its executive director.
Her leadership experience includes serving as the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers and as a Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) consultant for Lykos (formerly MAPS MPBC). In 2021, she co-founded Rising Caps Collective alongside Aisha Mohammed, LMFT to support expansive healing from the ongoing legacies of colonization, slavery, and capitalism.
Jennifer holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Northwestern University, an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work, and a PhD in Social Work and Social Research from Bryn Mawr College. She has published on social work practice, ethical psychedelic engagement, political organizing, and the experiences of students doing sex work to fund their education.