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Dr. Jean knows from many sides the challenges of offering mental health care in the country, where resources can be strained.
She also knows the challenges someone may face when they are living with abuse in a rural area — and leaving that situation may bring greater risk, even with the resources available through the Elizabeth Freeman Center and related places, and finding safety and protection may have challenges.
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Through the lens of her lived experiences, identities, clinical practice and research, Dr. Jean reflects on the current political climate and the historical roots of the oppression of women, and women's struggles past and present for independence, freedom and autonomy over our own bodies.
Dr. Jean has sat with many people in the midst of hard and painful times, and people who have survived trauma and carry the weight years later.
As a social worker and psychotherapist, in her 30 years of clinical practice in trauma recovery, resilience and mental wellness, she has talked with people not only about finding immediate stability and persevering day to day, but finding paths to healing. As a social worker and psychotherapist, in her 30 years of clinical practice in trauma recovery, resilience building and holistic mental wellness, Dr. Jean has worked with and talked with people of many ages — including children. She has also talked with youth and older people who have survived trauma earlier in their lives. She reflects with care and sadness on this very difficult subject — and she speaks with honesty and clarity. Please be aware, this conversation may contain difficult and triggering language for some people.  Dr. Jean brings her lived experiences and identities to her work, as a therapist offering self-care, culturally responsive treatment approaches and innovative therapeutic techniques for complex trauma, and as a native Jamaican, a voice in the immigrant community, a woman of color.  |
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