Co-Director
Associate Clinical Professor
Dr. Jessica Jeffrey is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the UCLA Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She serves as Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs for the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and is Co-Director of the Division of Population Behavioral Health. In addition, she is the Lead Psychiatrist at UCLA Behavioral Health Associates and Director of the UCLA–Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Telehub Program, where she oversees pediatric integrated behavioral health services in the Antelope Valley and through STAND, a UCLA Depression Grand Challenge program at East Los Angeles College.
Dr. Jeffrey has extensive expertise in trauma-informed care and psychedelic-assisted therapies. Her clinical and research interests focus on improving access to high-quality mental health care, innovative models of behavioral health delivery, and the therapeutic applications of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. She has authored numerous publications on integrated behavioral health, psilocybin-assisted therapies, health services delivery, and quality of life in individuals with mental illness.
A Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Dr. Jeffrey is also a faculty member in the UCLA Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Clinic and serves on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee. She has been recognized as a Southern California Rising Star by Super Doctors® in 2020, 2021, and 2023.