Maria Ximena Maldonado-Morales, LCSW-S, MPH

Maria Ximena Maldonado-Morales is a multilingual licensed clinical social worker, with experience working with youth and adults. Maria has particular experience working with children and youth with trauma, immigrant populations, and women and infants in a perinatal setting. Maria is originally from Kansas, and has worked in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri as a social worker, as well as a middle school teacher in Houston, Texas. Maria feels therapy should be something accessible to anyone who wants to begin the work, and wants to create an environment where people can feel heard, valued and safe.  

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Maldonado-Morales, M.X. (2023) No Soy De Aquí, Ni Soy De Allá: Second-Generation Latinx Youth Belonging Everywhere and Nowhere, Smith College Studies in Social Work, DOI: 10.1080/00377317.2023.2214627

Maldonado-Morales, M.X., Yudovich, S. (2023). Embodiment of the Self in Physical and Sexual Abuse During Childhood and Adolescence. In: Maldonado-Duran, J.M., Jimenez-Gomez, A., Saxena, K. (eds) Handbook of Mind/Body Integration in Child and Adolescent Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18377-5_8

Yudovich, S., Maldonado-Morales, M.X. (2023). Embodiment of the Self in Traumatic Situations: Unresolved and Traumatic Losses. In: Maldonado-Duran, J.M., Jimenez-Gomez, A., Saxena, K. (eds) Handbook of Mind/Body Integration in Child and Adolescent Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18377-5_7

Maldonado-Duran, J. M., Jiménez-Gómez, A., Maldonado-Morales, M. X., & Lecannelier, F. (Eds.). (2019). Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health. Springer International Publishing.

Maldonado-Morales, M. X. (2019). Culture, Pregnancy, and Its Challenges. In: Maldonado-Duran, J. M., Jiménez-Gómez, A., Maldonado-Morales, M. X., & Lecannelier, F. (Eds.). Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health. Springer International Publishing.

Maldonado-Morales, M. X., Caldera-Wimmer, S., Johnson-Cardona, S. (2019). Culture, Pregnancy, and Its Challenges. In: Maldonado-Duran, J. M., Jiménez-Gómez, A., Maldonado-Morales, M. X., & Lecannelier, F. (Eds.). Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health. Springer International Publishing.

Johnson-Cardona, S., Caldera-Wimmer, S., Maldonado-Morales, M.X. (2019). Working with Hispanic Families During the Perinatal Period and Early Childhood. In: Maldonado-Duran, J. M., Jiménez-Gómez, A., Maldonado-Morales, M. X., & Lecannelier, F.  (Eds.). Clinical Handbook of Transcultural Infant Mental Health. Springer International Publishing.