Currently a psychoanalyst in private practice since 1980, Dr. Broitman was born in New York City, to Adeline and Harold Broitman. She attended the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she got her BA in 1975 in Art (to see some of her paintings go here: (https://doctorjess.org/artist/), Religion, and Psychology, and an MA in 1977 in Counseling Psychology. As member of the Intensive Treatment Team of the Boulder Mental Health Center, she ran the Gordon Beyer project, one of the first residential treatment programs for chronic schizophrenics in the country. While in Boulder, she met her husband, Gibor Basri, (a former Vice Chancellor) who is currently a Professor of the Graduate School in Astronomy at UC Berkeley.

In 1980 they moved to the Bay Area, where she became the Program Coordinator for the Creative Living Center, another residential treatment program. She became a licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor in 1980. Dr Broitman attended the Wright Institute in Berkeley, where she obtained her PhD in 1985 and became a licensed Psychologist in 1987.  Dr. Broitman joined  Joseph Weiss, Control Mastery Theory and the Mt Zion Research Group in 1980. She formalized the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group as a non-profit organization in 1993. She is President emerita of SFPRG.

Dr. Broitman began study at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute in 1996, and graduated as a Psychoanalyst in 2001. She currently has a private practice doing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Berkeley.  She was instrumental in the initiation of SFPRG Psychotherapy Training Center and Clinic, and served as its Executive Director for 15 years. In 2017 she help create the International Control Mastery Therapy Center (CMTCenter.org) and currently serves as the President of the CMTCenter. She frequently lectures on Weiss’ Control Mastery Theory worldwide.

Dr. Broitman has become an expert on non-verbal learning disabilities (NVLD), and recently co-authored 5 books on that topic for practitioners and parents. She is the co-author many books and articles on NVLD including: Nonverbal Learning Disabilities in Children: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice (2011) learn more here: https://doctorjess.org/author/ and the co-editor of Treating NVLD in Children (2013) learn more here: https://doctorjess.org/author/ as well as numerous chapter and articles.  She has worked with families who have learning-disabled children for more than 15 years. She is currently involved in several research projects concerning the treatment and understanding of NVLD and has a special interest in helping professionals and families understand and treat this disorder. She is available for consultations and can be reached at: drjess@comcast.net.

For more information on her work on NVLD see: https://doctorjess.org/psychoanalyst/

For a half-hour video on NVLD featuring the authors, please see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vymdZUuB-T4&feature=youtu.be

Her resume can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IGmYSuK35D9_v4ADc5Lyv24oeUyqFu-ubD5Q8ocANBU/edit#heading=h.l7won1k6dj3k

Her son, Jacob Avram Basri, was born in 1991. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (2013) and now a director/actor living in New York City.