Mao Beckett, LCSW, LICSW

Mao Beckett is a lecturer in the Social Work Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She earned her MSW from Boston College School of Social Work in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, after her seven year active duty Air Force service.

She is a licensed independent clinical social worker and an Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) certified therapist. Throughout her career, Mao has worked with various populations in different capacities, including as an in-home family therapist, school-based counselor, emergency department social worker, and military and family life counselor, before opening her own private practice, Reset & Resilient Wellness, in 2021. In her private practice, she provides somatic and attachment-focused EMDR therapy, in addition to in-person and virtual community workshops about mental health and collective healing.

Her work is rooted in liberation-centered healing and anchored in decolonized mental health care, which is non-pathologizing, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and social justice-oriented. She acknowledges how systemic racism and oppression affect mental and physical health and their detrimental impact on individuals and communities.

Education:

• MSW, Concentration in Mental Health, School of Social Work, Boston College
• BA, Psychology, American Military University

Licenses:

• Independent Clinical Social Worker- Massachusetts
• Clinical Social Worker- Wisconsin
• Clinical Social Worker- Guam
• Clinical Social Worker- Colorado
• Clinical Social Worker- Hawai’i

Professional Interests:

• Decolonized mental health care
• Immigrant/refugee mental health
• Somatic healing & indigenous/ancestral practices
• Polyvagal theory
• Interpersonal neurobiology
• Abolition in social work