Death Cafe profile for Jessica Thomas, PhD
Location: United States
http://transpersonalliving.com/
About Jessica Thomas, PhD:
Jessica Thomas, PhD, LMFT holds a Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy and a PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in Transpersonal Psychology. She is a therapist, clinical supervisor and organizational consultant that specializes in death, dying and grief at her private practice Reflective Therapy & Consulting LLC. She has been a hospice volunteer for over six years, and a volunteer for PDX Death Cafe’s- a movement working to open up the discussion of death in the greater community. Dr. Thomas currently serves on the board of the NW Association for Death Education and Bereavement Support. As an adjunct professor at Lewis and Clark College, she teaches on death, loss and psycho-spiritual crises. Dr. Thomas’s doctoral research, Mindful Photography and its Implications in End-of-life Caregiving: An Art-based Phenomenology focused on creative expression and the experience of anticipatory loss. Jessica utilizes mindful photography as a spiritual practice and in therapy groups with those experiencing grief and loss.
What brings you to Death Cafe?
I believe in the connections that are made and the wisdom that is found when we can open heartedly discuss death.
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With Jessica Thomas, PhD & The Community Engagement Department
Oct. 8, 2016, 10.00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. (PST)
Donations for refreshments accepted.
This will be the first Death Cafe on Lewis and Clark College Campus. We hope to engage a diverse group from the student body, faculty and the greater community.
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