Allo Pamela Jackson, Owner and Therapist

Pamela Jackson is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, creative nonfiction writer, and Allomother. She has 15 years in the mental health industry and specializes in therapy for adult women who have estranged or difficult relationships with their mothers who are alive or deceased.

Allomothering is the practice she created after becoming a mother. Allomothering is a primal instinct female animals have to care for newborns while they allow the mother to forage and rest after giving birth. Pamela understands that Allomothering in human terms can look like a nurturing person (with or without children) prioritizing the healing of their traumas, being mindful of their needs and the resources to meet them, as they care for those around them. Those who practice a lifestyle of self-reflection and inner healing, create a stable foundation for themselves to stand on that tends to stay solid even when others lean in.

Pamela is also the creator of Solo Theater Therapy (STT), a storytelling platform using theater to deepen an individual's self-determination over one specific story in their life. Her one-woman shows have appeared on Off-Broadway at Theatre Row, Irondale Theater and other venues. She has been published in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, featured several times in Newsweek for her insights as a therapist, and won Pitch Wars with Paragraph NY for her first mental health memoir on the relationship between devastation and hope. She is also a Wild Seeds Fellow at The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College.  

Pamela holds a Bachelors from The New School, a Masters in Fine Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters in Social Work from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. She is a co-parent to her bold and joyful daughter in Brooklyn, NY.