Maureen Walker is a licensed psychologist with an independent practice in psychotherapy and anti-racism consultation in Cambridge, MA. She is a faculty member and Founding Scholar of the International Center for Growth in Connection, Inc., formerly known as the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute, a legacy project of Wellesley College Centers for Women. For twenty-five years, she worked at Harvard Business School (HBS) providing counseling and mental health support to students in the graduate management program. After retiring from her role as the Director of Student Support Services, she has maintained her affiliation with HBS through clinical consultation services.
The author of several papers in the Stone Center/ Jean Baker Miller Works in Progress Series, Dr. Walker has also written journal articles and textbook chapters. Works in Progress publications include Therapist’s Authenticity, Racial Images and Relational Possibilities, Getting to the Truths about Race…And the Stories we Tell Along the Way. She has published articles Women & Therapy in 2008 and 2011. She also contributed chapters in the textbooks Diversity and Development: Critical Contexts that Shape our Lives and Relationships, Diversity in College Settings: Directives for Helping Professionals, as well as the manual The Complete Guide to Mental Health for Women, Beacon Press. She is also co-editor of two books: How Connections Heal and The Complexity of Connection.
Her current projects include developing a practice model for confronting the claims of post-racialism and promoting justice in the context of inequitable power arrangements. In addition, she is the author of When Getting Along Is Not Enough: Reconstructing Race in Our Lives and Relationships, published in 2019 by Teachers College Press.
Her current projects include developing a practice model for confronting the claims of post-racialism and promoting justice in the context of inequitable power arrangements. In addition, she is the author of When Getting Along Is Not Enough: Reconstructing Race in Our Lives and Relationships, published in 2019 by Teachers College Press.
Instagram: @,mwalkphd
Twitter: @MMaureenwalker
Website: www.maureenwalker.com
