Marquita Maxwell, LPC, M.DIV., NCC, ACS, BC-TMH

Trusted Telehealth & AI Ethics Expert

Marquita Maxwell, LPC, M.Div., NCC, ACS, BC-TMH, is a Georgia-licensed professional counselor, counselor educator, clinical supervisor, author, and professional trainer. Her work brings together telehealth ethics, multicultural counseling, contemplative awareness, relationship education, spirituality, trauma-informed care, and whole-person mental health treatment. She currently serves as a Core Assistant Professor in Naropa University’s Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling program, where she teaches counseling skills, multicultural foundations, professional ethics, practicum, and internship courses.

Marquita Maxwell clinical approach recognizes that emotional health is influenced by thoughts, behavior, physical responses, relationships, identity, culture, spirituality, technology, and the environments in which people live. She works primarily with adults navigating anxiety, depression, grief, stress, trauma-related concerns, relationship challenges, family conflict, women’s issues, and major personal or professional transitions. Her current clinical profile identifies Brainspotting, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, existential therapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy among her treatment approaches.

Marquita Maxwell also provides professional education on the ethical use of telehealth and emerging artificial intelligence tools in counseling. Her teaching helps clinicians balance innovation with confidentiality, informed consent, cultural responsiveness, accessibility, professional competence, and human clinical judgment. Rather than presenting technology as inherently beneficial or harmful, she encourages counselors to evaluate how digital tools affect therapeutic presence, privacy, equity, documentation, boundaries, and client welfare.

Professional Background

Marquita Maxwell earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Sociology from Georgia State University. She later completed a Master of Science in Community Counseling and a Master of Divinity with a concentration in pastoral counseling at Mercer University. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Counselor Education and Supervision at Walden University; current institutional and clinical profiles still describe the degree as in progress, so the page should not use a doctoral title until completion is confirmed.

At Naropa University, Marquita Maxwell serves as a Core Assistant Professor in the low-residency Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling concentration. Her documented teaching responsibilities include Counseling and Helping Relationships, Social and Multicultural Foundations of Counseling, Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice, Counseling Practicum, and Counseling Internship. Her academic role allows her to support developing counselors as they integrate clinical theory, ethical standards, cultural awareness, contemplative practice, supervision, and direct client care.

Her professional credentials include Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, and Board Certified–TeleMental Health Provider. The National Certified Counselor program requires graduate counseling education, examination, and continuing professional accountability. The Board Certified–TeleMental Health Provider credential addresses training and competency related to safe telebehavioral health practice. Her current Naropa profile and CCE records identify her with these counseling, supervision, and telehealth credentials.

Marquita Maxwell is also a certified Brainspotting practitioner. Brainspotting-informed work may help clients attend to the relationship among visual focus, emotional activation, physical experience, and distressing memories. Her broader clinical style remains integrative and client-centered, combining body awareness and trauma-responsive intervention with cognitive, existential, solution-focused, relational, and culturally responsive approaches.

Before and alongside her current academic work, Marquita developed Millennial Counseling, Coaching, and Consulting, where her education and speaking have included tele-mental health, the integration of technology and therapy, relationships, dating, personal development, and counselor professional growth. Her work has also involved college and university communities, including Georgia State University, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Emory University.

Her publication record includes relationship education for general readers and collaborative scholarship related to digital learning communities, sexual-misconduct reporting, counselor preparation, social-work education, and higher-education internships. Her book, Being the One: B12 The Relationship Vitamin, encourages readers to examine vulnerability, communication, intentionality, personal responsibility, and the relationship they have with themselves before focusing exclusively on finding a partner.

Areas of Expertise

Telehealth Ethics and Digital Counseling. Marquita helps clinicians address the responsibilities that arise when counseling takes place through video, messaging, digital documentation systems, and other technologies. Important considerations include verifying client identity and location, developing emergency procedures, protecting health information, understanding jurisdictional restrictions, selecting appropriate platforms, and clearly explaining technological risks. Clinical Events’ guide to Telehealth Ethics and Client Privacy provides complementary guidance on informed consent, platform security, record protection, and virtual clinical boundaries.

Artificial Intelligence and Counselor Ethics. AI tools are increasingly used for documentation, administrative work, education, communication, and clinical support. Marquita’s education examines risks involving inaccurate output, algorithmic bias, confidentiality, data retention, informed consent, professional competence, and excessive dependence on automated systems. She emphasizes that licensed clinicians remain responsible for verifying information and making clinical decisions even when technology assists with part of the workflow.

Ethical Decision-Making and Clinical Supervision. As an Approved Clinical Supervisor and counselor educator, Marquita helps clinicians examine competence, documentation, confidentiality, boundaries, consultation, cultural context, and client welfare. The Approved Clinical Supervisor credential recognizes mental health professionals who meet national supervision standards. Clinical Events’ resource on ethical practice, confidentiality, boundaries, and competence offers a related framework for evaluating complex professional decisions.

Multicultural and Culturally Responsive Counseling. Marquita’s academic teaching includes social and multicultural foundations of counseling. Her approach encourages clinicians to examine how race, culture, gender, spirituality, socioeconomic conditions, family expectations, access to technology, and previous experiences with healthcare may affect treatment. Cultural responsiveness requires continued curiosity and self-examination rather than assuming that broad knowledge about a demographic group explains an individual client.

Mindfulness-Based and Transpersonal Counseling. Her Naropa University role places her within a program that integrates clinical counseling with mindfulness, contemplative education, and transpersonal perspectives. These approaches can support awareness of emotional experience, values, meaning, identity, and the relationship between internal experience and behavior. Marquita’s work keeps these practices connected to professional ethics, client preference, cultural humility, and established counseling responsibilities.

Trauma-Informed Care and Brainspotting. Marquita works with clients experiencing trauma-related distress and uses Brainspotting as one element of an integrative treatment approach. Trauma-informed care includes attention to emotional and physical safety, pacing, choice, collaboration, triggers, coping resources, and the client’s readiness to engage difficult material. Brainspotting should be used within the clinician’s competence and a broader assessment and treatment plan rather than presented as an automatic solution for every client.

Relationships, Dating, Divorce, and Stepfamilies. Relationship education is a longstanding component of Marquita’s clinical and written work. She addresses dating, communication, divorce, self-esteem, spirituality, family transitions, and stepfamily dynamics. Her perspective encourages individuals to consider their boundaries, values, expectations, communication habits, emotional availability, and personal responsibility rather than placing the entire focus on finding or changing another person.

Professional Boundaries and Technology. Telehealth, social media, electronic communication, online visibility, and AI-assisted workflows can gradually alter the therapeutic frame. Marquita’s work helps clinicians establish clear communication policies, protect client privacy, separate personal and professional digital activity, and recognize when convenience begins to compromise ethical practice. Clinical Events’ guide to professional boundaries for therapists provides additional examples of boundary crossings, digital contact, self-disclosure, and role confusion.

Authored Publications

• Being the One: B12 The Relationship Vitamin
• Learning Communities: Intentional Connection in a Digital World
• Training Student Leaders in Reporting Sexual Misconduct Incidents at a Two-Year College
• An Interprofessional Internship Model for Training Master’s-Level Social Work and Counseling Students in Higher Education Settings