Jessica Broitman, PhD
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Brief Biography
Jessica was born in New York City, to Adeline and Harold
Broitman. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she got her
BA in 1975 in Art, Religion, and Psychology, and an MA in 1977 in Counseling
Psychology. She became a member of the Intensive Treatment Team of the Boulder
Mental Health Center. She ran the Gordon Beyer project, one of the first
residential treatment programs for chronic schizophrenics in the country. While
in Boulder, she met her husband, Gibor Basri, who is currently
a Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley. Our son, Jacob Avram Basri, was born in 1991. He is a graduate
of Sarah Lawrence College (2013) and now a theatre director living in New York
City.
In 1980 they
moved to the Bay Area, where she became the Program Coordinator for the
Creative Living Center, another residential treatment program. She became a
licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor in 1980 and a licensed
Psychologist in 1987. Jessica attended the Wright Institute in Berkeley, where
she obtained her PhD in 1985. During this time she became involved with Joseph
Weiss and Control Mastery Theory. She formalized the San Francisco
Pyschotherapy Research group as a non-profit organization in 1993 and served as
its first President.
Jessica began
study at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in 1996, and graduated in
2001. She has a private practice doing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in
Berkeley. She was also instrumental in the initiation of the new SF
Psychotherapy Training Center and Clinic in 2000, and served as the founding
Executive Director for 16 years. She joined the Faculty of the Wright Institute
in 2001. She was also on the Board of the "I Have a Dream - Oakland"
Foundation for most of its operation. She has become an expert on non-verbal
learning disabilities (NVLD), and recently co-authored 2 books on that topic
for practitioners and parents (see link above). For a half-hour video on NVLD
featuring the authors, please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vymdZUuB-T4&feature=youtu.be . In 2017 she
participated in the creation of the International
Control Mastery Therapy Center and currently serves as its founding President.