Get to know Jenna Maxfield ( leader | advocate | therapist)
“When Jenna speaks, she is a beacon of compassion. The other immediately begins to discover hidden parts of themselves.”
— JIM D., CLINICAL ADVISOR
She’s real.
Jenna knows the human things… trauma, grief, loss, healing, growth, triumph. Thus, the relationships she cultivates and the work she engages in is sacred to her. She can hold what you need to share. She intimately cares about people and our relationships.
During therapy, she will do her best not to make assumptions and to always keep a learning mindset. She wants to hear from you about how she can better relate to you and support you.
Jenna is a fully licensed, independent clinical social worker (LCSW-Colorado, LICSW-Massachusetts) with thousands of hours of intensive training. She maintains consistent consultation with other mental health and wellness experts.
Her education includes a B.S. in Behavioral Sciences from the U.S. Air Force Academy (Colorado Springs), a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Boston College, a two-year post-graduate clinical fellowship in Women’s Health plus trauma with Atrius Health in Boston (Harvard Medical School training affiliate), a one-year narrative therapy training intensive (Salem, Massachusetts), a Graduate Certificate in Organizational Behavior from Harvard, and 15 years of designing and leading sexual assault response programs plus patient-centered mental health programs.
She’s prepared.
Some lived experiences that guide Jenna’s integrity and compassionate approach:
-serving as a humanitarian leader overseas in Japan during the tsunami crisis
-developing + leading best practices in patient care involving Sexual Assault Prevention and Response in Afghanistan
-working with teams in India as a corporate Learning and Development consultant
-supporting immigrant women in Washington D.C. with micro-enterprise ventures
-organizing culturally-sensitive support for families in refugee status in Boston
- advocating for more inclusive services for LGBTQIA2S+ identifying veterans in the VA healthcare system
-research to increase access to trauma-informed mental health services for women in asylum-seeker status in France, Belgium, and the U.S.
-engaging poetry, music, outdoors/nature and the healing arts to support healing
She’s engaged.
Jenna will flex with creativity, kindness, encouragement, a nonjudgmental sense of humor, gratitude, and a passionate belief that things can change when you lean into the tough inner work.
She will draw on human-centered practices (e.g. narrative therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), internal family systems (IFS), psychodynamic therapy), evidence-based practices (e.g. cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)), body-centered practices (eg. somatic therapy, reiki, mindfulness), and natured-based methods (ecotherapy) to invite insight and transformation.
Jenna’s work in not prescriptive in nature. She listens very closely to you and understands that different folks have very different needs in therapy. She is open to hearing about who you are and what your lived experience is. These important details support the co-creation of the journeying and healing processes.
If you’re ready to work, Jenna is your human.