Find a Focusing Professional - Francesca Maxime
www.maximeclarity.com
www.maximetherapy.com
Francesca Marguerite Maximé is a licensed somatic psychotherapist and somatic life coach offering in person and virtual psychotherapy sessions in Brooklyn, NY, as well as virtual psychotherapy sessions in Massachusetts and Florida. She is a Haitian-Dominican Italian-American Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), IMTA-accredited certified mindfulness meditation teacher (CMT-P), certified Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy for Complex Trauma wellbeing guide, Relational Life Therapy Couples Therapist & Life Coach, Certified in Internal Family Systems level 1 and IFIO/Intimacy from the Inside Out, IFS level 2. She is also a poet/author in Brooklyn, New York.She is not in network with any insurance companies but clients can offer direct pay, or, Francesca can offer Superbill receipts for Out of Network Reimbursement.
She is the 2019 recipient of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies Outstanding Student Advocacy & Service Award, as well as the 2019 first prize winner of the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards. She hosts the #ReRooted podcast on the Be Here Now Network, and the now-retired #WiseGirl video podcast, available on iTunes and YouTube and other podcasting outlets. She has been mentored in mindfulness meditation practices by clinical psychologist and Insight Meditation Society co-founder and Spirit Rock Meditation Center founder Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. and has also been a mindfulness student of clinical psychologist and Insight Meditation Community of Washington, D.C. founder Tara Brach, Ph.D. Francesca has sat in silent retreat cumulatively for several months. Through her Maximé Clarity, Creating Space for Wellbeing and Mindful Brooklyn offerings, she offers services to help address trauma, process grief, reduce stress, and more, including working with organizations and communities on addressing structural, organization and social/cultural trauma. Maximé teaches meditation and mindfulness to individuals, executives, nonprofit leaders and groups in New York City and online, primarily through a secular lens informed by ancient wisdom teachings. Maximé integrates mindfulness and relational practices, Buddhist psychology, attachment styles, neuroscience research, positive neuroplasticity, Nonviolent Communication, Focusing, narrative expression and somatic “bottom-up” approaches in her private and group teachings and trainings with clients and students. After graduating from Harvard University, Francesca’s career began in working in Fortune 500 companies in Sales and Marketing, traveling all around the country addressing Bank Presidents, CEO’s, sales and marketing teams, and more. In addition to looking inward to address past trauma, Francesca applies a broader communal lens outward to try and help prevent it: her work with executive leadership, in communities and with groups additionally emphasizes issues pertaining to organizational, social and cultural trauma as well as gender and racial equity and equality.