ABOUT DR. Bass
Background
In addition to my work with private clients, I practice and teach at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. Before my family life brought me to the Washington, D.C., area, I was a professor at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center, where I taught clinicians and treated adults with a wide variety of issues related to depression, anxiety, women’s mental health, reproductive health, mood disorders, and life and role transitions. I have trained in outpatient, inpatient, community-based, and college-counseling settings.
I hold a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the New School for Social Research, as well as a B.A. from Barnard College. I completed my postdoctoral fellowship and clinical internship at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
My clinical training began with a focus on Developmental Psychology, Attachment Theory, and evolving family forms through assisted reproduction. I have worked on several studies on diverse families formed through surrogacy and gamete donation under the auspices of Columbia University in New York City and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
My research and clinical background on diverse family forms, coupled with my clinical expertise with perinatal and parenting issues, has given me extensive experience in the complexities of building and maintaining families. I provide consultations and evaluations upon request to those contemplating third-party reproduction.
My sessions have an active, goal-oriented style. I use my rigorous training and my deep concern for my clients to find pathways to greater ease, comfort, and fulfillment.
EDUCATION
PUBLICATIONS of Dr. Jenna Bass, née Jenna Slutsky
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Clinical Psychology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, The New School for Social Research
M.A. in Clinical Psychology, The New School for Social Research
B.A. in Psychology, Barnard College, Columbia University
1. Golombok, S., Blake, L., Slutsky, J., Raffanello, E., Roman, G., & Ehrhardt, A. (2018). Parenting and the adjustment of children born to gay fathers through surrogacy. Child Development, 89(4), p. 1223. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12728
2. Slutsky, J., Jadva, V., Freeman, T., Persaud, S., Kramer, W., Steele, M., Steele, H., and Golombok, S. (2016). Integrating donor conception into identity: parent-child relationships and identity development in donor-conceived adolescents. Fertility and Sterility, 104(3), p. 739. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnster.2015.07.1123
3. Blake, L., Carone, N., Slutsky, J., Raffanello, E., Ehrhardt, A., & Golombok, S. (2016). Gay fathers through surrogacy: Relationships with surrogates and egg donors and parental disclosure of children’s origins. Fertility & Sterility, 106,1503-1509.
4. Freeman, T., Jadva, V., and Slutsky, J. (2016). "Sperm donors limited: psychosocial aspects of genetic connections and the regulation of offspring numbers" in S. Golombok, R. Scott, S. Wilkinson, M. J. Appleby, M. Richards, and S. Wilkinson (eds.) Regulating Reproductive Donation.
5. Persaud, S., Freeman, T., Jadva, V., Slutsky, J., Kramer, W., Steele, M., Steele, H. and Golombok, S. (2016). Adolescents conceived through donor insemination in mother-headed families: a qualitative study of motivations and experiences of contacting and meeting same-donor offspring. Children and Society. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12158
6. Slutsky, J. (2014), [Review of the book The Circle of Security Intervention, By B. Powell, G. Cooper, K. Hoffman, B. Marvin.] Infant and Child Development. DOI: 10.1002/icd.1839