Jennifer Shepard Payne, Ph.D., LCSW, is a Research Scientist and Clinician at the Kennedy
Krieger Institute in the Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress (CCFTS) and the Center for the Neuroscience of Social Injustice, Baltimore Maryland, U.S.A. She is also an assistant
professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with a primary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She is owner and founder of DTG Counseling and Consulting LLC, a part-time mental health private practice with a culture and faith emphasis (http://www.directtogod.com/).
She received her doctorate in Social Welfare from UCLA and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with many years of experience in mental health clinical practice. For several years, Dr. Payne has been working on culturally tailoring Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for African American communities experiencing racial and systemic trauma. She developed a culturally-tailored ACT intervention called POOF ™ and trains and consults on the model: www.POOF-PullingOutOfFire.com. Her book, Out Of The Fire, Healing Black Trauma Caused by Systemic Racism Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a love note for Blacks and others suffering from the paralyzing effects of systemic racism.
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