Jodie Kliman is a social-clinical psychologist and a family therapist. She is on the core faculty of the Psy.D. program in clinical psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, where she teaches family therapy, narrative therapy, a course in doing clinical supervision, and working with refugees.
She has published and presented widely regarding the effects of the interactive social contexts of gender, social class, race, and culture on family life and clinical work, as well as on the effects of, and healing responses to, collective trauma from violence or disaster on communities and families. She has also published and provided trainings in network therapy, in which all the important people in the life of a family in crisis are gathered to take collective responsibility for the family's well being. She is a former board member of the American Family Therapy Academy, is a fellow of the Network of Multicultural Training in Psychology, a scientific advisor for the Children's Psychological Health Center (San Francisco), and is associated with the Artsbridge Institute, a program that brings Israeli and Palestinian adolescents together in the U.S. and in the Middle East for arts training, training in reflective dialogue, and expressive therapies. She has a small private practice in Brookline, MA.