Applied Neuroscience Graduate Student
Kings College London
Jessica Perron holds a B.A. in Psychology from Hartwick College in Oneonta NY, currently pursuing graduate studies in Applied Neuroscience at King's College London, and is the founder of Woodland Creative Learning Center, in New Market, Maryland. Originally offering an individualized preschool program for children with autism, her learning center now offers executive function coaching to individuals ages 5 through adulthood. Her coaching practice emphasizes a "Regulation First: Neuro Informed" approach, integrating neuroscience research with trauma-informed methods to support client’s executive function skills. Jessica’s strategies are based collectively on her background including early intervention, development of educational programs for children with autism and applied neuroscience graduate studies. Jessica's graduate studies and research both focus on trauma, dissociation, and the vestibular system.
With 15 years of experience across many branches within the field of Psychology, Jessica has become well-versed and highly adaptive. She has worked in various early intervention, special education settings, and psychiatric settings where she gained specialized knowledge in supporting autistic and neurodivergent populations. Additionally, Jessica completed undergraduate internships in the inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit at AO Fox Memorial Hospital and in Cognitive Neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Drawing on lived experience and studies in neuroscience, her research focuses on the neurobiological mechanisms underlying dissociation, particularly the role of the vestibular system as both an anchor of consciousness and the role it plays in developing a sense of self. Her theoretical framework explores what she terms the "vestibular paradox", how childhood trauma creates a neurobiological distancing which alters the embodied self then progressively disrupts the development of a sense of both relational and agency.
Jessica is a new member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and her first time contributing to research examining the relationship between childhood trauma, vestibular system function, and dissociative experiences.
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Friday, March 27, 2026
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM US Pacific Time