Jennifer Shepard Payne, PhD, LCSW

Jennifer Shepard Payne, PhD, LCSW, is the founder and owner of DTG Counseling and Consulting, a private practice where she provides acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) counseling and coaching primarily to African Americans of faith suffering from anxiety or trauma. For several years, Payne has been working on culturally tailoring ACT for African American communities, both clinically and via research. She is the co-coordinator for the Executive Committee of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Special Interest Group within the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS). She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.