Meet Maxine Golden, RMFTI
Therapist. Parent Coach. Trainer. Author. Adoptive Mom.
Maxine Golden is the Owner and Clinical Director of Center for Parent Coaching, Brainspotting & Therapy LLC in Brandon, Florida.
For more than 25 years, she has worked with adoptive, foster, neurodivergent, and court-involved families, helping parents understand the nervous-system and trauma-related needs that may exist beneath challenging behavior.
Her clinical work draws on Brainspotting, Polyvagal Theory, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), attachment-based approaches, somatic practices, and play therapy.
Her experience includes adoption-competent therapy, parent coaching, foster youth and sibling groups, reunification support, co-parenting, and intensive parenting instruction.
Maxine also provides professional education for agencies, community organizations, case managers, and judicial professionals and has developed continuing judicial education addressing autism, attachment, and trauma.
She is the author of The Adoption Parenting Playbook and It's Not Your Fault, creator of Parenting Through Your Nervous System, and a doctoral student researching temperament theory.
Parents don't just need another behavior chart. They need to understand what's happening beneath their child's behavior.
See the need beneath the behavior. Build safety. Strengthen connection.
Parenting Through Connection
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