General Board Member
Jessica Thomas, PhD, LMFT, holds an MS in Marriage and Family Therapy and a PhD in Psychology with an emphasis in Transpersonal 
Psychology. She served on the NWADEBS board for many years as board President. She is a therapist, an AAMFT certified clinical supervisor and organizational consultant that specializes in death, dying and grief at her private practice: Reflective Therapy & Consulting LLC.
Jessica has been a hospice volunteer for over eight years and a volunteer for PDX Death Cafe’s- a movement working to open up the discussion of death in the greater community. She currently serves as President on the board of the NW Association for Death Education and Bereavement Support.
As faculty at the graduate school of Lewis and Clark College, Jessica teaches on death, loss and psycho-spiritual crises, provides clinical supervision and teaches research methods. Her 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.
