Jody Thomas, PhD

Dr. Thomas is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Denver, Colorado and Adjunct Faculty in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry. A well-known expert in pediatric pain, she is also a founder and the former Clinical Director of the Packard Pediatric Pain Rehabilitation Center at Stanford. 

She is a former Assistant Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and currently serves as Adjunct Faculty providing supervision and teaching for faculty and trainees in Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry. As an active consultant for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, she directs projects for the institution on the integration and innovation of pain management and hypnosis. 

Her current projects include developing video based interventions to empower children and families around issues of pain management (“You Are The Boss of Your Brain”: https://youtu.be/UbK9FFoAcvs). 

Recently, she has also partnered with Dr. Leora Kuttner to found and serve as Executive Director of the Meg Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to closing the gap between research and clinical practice regarding pain prevention and management in children through empowerment and education. She currently practices in Denver, Colorado.