
Mao Beckett, LCSW, LICSW
- Lecturer
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