Dr. Jessica Zucker is a licensed clinical psychologist in Los Angeles specializing in women's health with a focus on reproductive and maternal mental health issues. Jessica works with adults, couples, mothers and daughters, infants and mothers, and developing families. She comes to the field of clinical psychology with a background in international women's reproductive health, mindfulness-based stress reduction, and psychoanalytically-oriented clinical training. Her psychotherapy practice integrates a mind-body health approach with principles of depth psychology. Having worked and lived in numerous countries around the world, Dr. Zucker brings a global perspective to her work.
Dr. Jessica Zucker is currently writing her first book based on her award-winning dissertation research exploring mother-daughter attachment relationships and the body (Routledge).
The Conversation, an alternative women's interview series premiering January 2012 on the Lifetime network, created by Demi Moore and Amanda de Cadenet, invited Dr. Zucker to contribute. Jessica is supporting the initiative through her writing on maternal health issues.
Instrumental in shaping the psychological backbone of the project, Dr. Zucker was interviewed in Fall 2011 in New York City as a consulting expert for a documentary film project exploring transitions in motherhood, postpartum adjustments, and the resulting complexities in identity as parenthood emerges. Christy Turlington Burns of Every Mother Counts is Executive Producing the film. Jessica is an associate producer on the project.
Dr. Zucker is a key contributor in the award-winning PBS project Early Moments Matter which explores the centrality of early parent-child attachment. Early Moments Matter is being distributed to hospitals, birth centers, and pediatrician's offices nationwide as an educational tool for developing families. The Attachment Toolkit features a series of educational materials with the aim of increasing awareness and skills for parents. In conjunction, Dr. Zucker is a blogger on PBS for This Emotional Life, an award-winning groundbreaking multi-platform project designed to address the need for the newest, most useful information on emotional well-being that will help people foster stronger social relationships. Dr. Zucker's blog addresses issues pertaining to early childhood attachment and postpartum mood disorders. Her writing can also be found on The Huffington Post.