Francesca M. Maximé (she/her)

Francesca Marguerite Maximé, LCSW, LICSW, SEP, IFS, CMT-P, IFOT, RLT, FOT 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 & Life Coach, and poet/author in Brooklyn, New York. 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 heal trauma, process grief, calm anxiety, and more. Maximé teaches meditation and mindfulness in New York City and online, primarily through a secular lens informed by ancient wisdom teachings. Maximé integrates mindfulness and relational practices, Buddhist psychology and attachment theory, modern neuroscience and psychoeducation, positive neuroplasticity, Nonviolent Communication, Focusing, narrative expression and somatic “bottom-up” approaches in her private and group teachings and trainings with clients and students. Francesca’s focus is applied mindfulness, shared connection, and sustainable wellbeing. In addition to looking inward to heal trauma, Francesca also applies a broader communal lens outward to try and help prevent it: her work in communities and groups additionally emphasizes issues pertaining to gender and racial equity and equality. Francesca is also an award-winning poet/author and TV news personality, and appeared on-air as a news anchor and correspondent for local, national, network and international television stations including PBS NewsHour, Bloomberg, NY1, WPIX, NBC and FOX. Maximé interviewed countless celebrities and politicians alike while reporting ‘live on scene’ from some of the most groundbreaking and transformative stories of our time. She also got a chance to pilot an F-16 with the Air Force Thunderbirds and pull 9 G’s, as well as fly with the Blue Angels. Experiences! As the host of the #ReRooted and previously, the #WiseGirl video podcasts, Maximé interview renowned neuroscientists, trauma specialists, activists, psychotherapists, and Buddhist and mindfulness meditation teachers including Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Rick Hanson, Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Mark Epstein, Dr. Vincent Felitti, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Richard Schwartz, Bruce Ecker, author Mark Matousek, law Professor Rhonda Magee, Grammy-winning bassist Christian McBride, Dharma Teacher Ruth King, sociologist Dr. Michael Kimmel, meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg, Lama Surya Das and Lama Rod Owens as well as activists, particularly around the issues of systemic racism and oppression, gender identity, sexual orientation, trauma, mindfulness, and sustainable wellbeing. Francesca graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English Literature and has published two books, Rooted: A Verse Memoir and ReRouted: Verse for the Human Animal. Francesca also loves the beach, her two kitties, playing tennis, and baking yummy things.

For all media inquiries and speaking engagements, please inquire through the contact form on this site if you’d like Francesca to speak publicly at your event, lead corporate or group classes on-site or on-line, and/or to teach or coach you privately. May all beings be happy!

More about Francesca's coaching practice, psychotherapy practice, and Psychology Today profile. www.maximetherapy.com, www.maximeclarity.com