Dr. Jennifer S. Payne named on Black Impact Magazine's 100 Entrepreneurs To Know

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 owns and founded DTG Counseling and Consulting LLC, a mental and behavioral 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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