The Mind + Body Connection (Spring 2025)

This two-hour training is designed to help participants define and explore the mind-body connection, recognize what biopsychosocial factors might provoke and promote problem gambling, and review and apply mindfulness-based therapeutic techniques to reduce gambling behaviors and distorted cognitions. This is an interactive training where participants will gain an understanding and confidence to apply holistic arts such as meditative movements, and somatic and mindful therapeutic modalities. Participants will be encouraged to do these activities in real-time with the instructor.

This training will be facilitated by Maya Williams-Bond-Jackson, LMHC, CCTP-II, MA PGS II, ADHD-CCSP, CCATP. Maya is a clinical consultant with M-TAC, owner of her private practice, host of a Black social club, and spends her days honing several crafts and projects and relishing quality time with her husband, family, and friends. Most importantly, she honors the interconnection of the mind and body by practicing holistic nutrition, Tai Chi, the art of strength training, weightlifting, boxing, meditation, gardening, singing, reading, and honoring the art of tea drinking and setting. She is excited to demonstrate how mindfulness can be a helpful tool when supporting those experiencing gambling harm.

Training instructor: 

Maya A. Williams-Bond-Jackson, LMHC, CCTP-II, MA PGS II, ADHD-CCSP, CCATP (she/her, he/him) – Maya A. Williams-Bond-Jackson is an Integrative Clinical Therapist who advantageously became a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 10 years of experience working with various populations nationwide. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the illustrious Clark Atlanta University, a historically black college and university (HBCU) in Atlanta, Georgia. Maya then sought to earn her master’s degree in clinical psychology and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Maya provides integrative therapeutic care at her private practice with an emphasis on neurodivergency, complexities of trauma, gender and sexual identity, affirmation, and expression, anxiety and mood disorders, chronic medical conditions, and impulsivity. As a Clinical Consultant for the M-TAC organization, she supports and develops educational contact primarily focusing on psychoeducation about Gambling Disorder and its biopsychosocial layers.

Continuing Education:

Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselors

• MA Technical Assistance Center for Problem Gambling Treatment is authorized by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to sponsor, conduct or approve continuing education programs for alcohol and drug counselors/assistants (LADCs).