About Jennifer Reid, MD
Welcome to A Mind of Her Own!
I’m Jennifer Reid, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist, educator, and author of Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life From Unreasonable Expectations (Penguin Life, January 27, 2026, available now). I’m also the creator and host of A Mind of Her Own, an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and an associate professor at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. I attended medical school at Columbia University and completed my psychiatry residency at UCLA.
I grew up in rural North Dakota, in a family of physicians, nurses, teachers and librarians, and I choose to honor that legacy through education, whether it’s with my podcast interviews with amazing people around the country working to make us healthier and happier, my writing, both serious and humorous, or teaching the next generation of psychiatrists.
I’m also a married mother of two boys, trying to raise them to be compassionate, productive, and thoughtful members of society.