Maurine Jobe

LCSW

Therapist

About Maurine Jobe

Mo believes therapy should be a place where you can be completely yourself—including the complicated, uncomfortable, messy, and occasionally ridiculous parts of being human. Her therapeutic style is warm, highly engaged, direct, and grounded in humor. She believes difficult work doesn’t have to feel heavy every minute, and humor often becomes an important part of the connection she develops with her clients.

Mo also believes therapy should lead to meaningful change. She especially enjoys working with clients who are ready to actively participate in the process and want practical tools they can use outside the therapy room. She helps clients identify patterns in their thoughts, behaviors, and relationships that may be keeping them stuck and isn’t afraid to challenge those patterns when necessary. Her goal isn’t to tell clients how to live their lives, but to help them understand themselves more clearly, consider different perspectives, and develop healthier and more productive ways of responding to life’s challenges.

Mo particularly enjoys working with adolescents and young adults, when there is an opportunity to develop healthier ways of thinking, coping, communicating, and navigating relationships before less helpful patterns become deeply established. She also enjoys working with adults who are ready to examine long-standing patterns and practice doing things differently. Regardless of age, Mo works best with clients who are curious about themselves, open to being challenged, and willing to practice new skills between sessions.

Mo has more than 20 years of experience in social work and mental health. She earned her Bachelor of Social Work from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2001 and her Master of Social Work from the University of Denver in 2004. She has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 2007. Her professional experience includes child abuse and fatality investigations, developing protocols and staff trainings, foster care, forensic interviewing, and providing therapy to children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families.

Much of Mo’s career has focused on trauma, abuse, and victimization. She has extensive experience helping people understand how traumatic experiences can affect their thoughts, emotions, relationships, sense of safety, and the way they see themselves and the world around them. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and incorporates EMDR into treatment when it is appropriate for the client. Mo values the unique level of attunement that can develop during this work. She experiences the therapeutic relationship as an exchange of energy and connection, and finds that the focused nature of EMDR often heightens her clinical intuition and sensitivity to subtle shifts in a client’s emotional experience. Her background as both a forensic interviewer and

trauma therapist has shaped an approach that is compassionate without being passive: she recognizes what has happened to a person while also helping them determine what they want to do next.

Above all, Mo wants clients to leave therapy with more than insight. Understanding why you think or respond a certain way can be incredibly valuable—but understanding is only the beginning. Therapy can also provide an opportunity to practice new ways of thinking, communicating, setting boundaries, managing emotions, and approaching relationships so that change becomes something you can actually carry into your everyday life.

Originally a Midwesterner, Mo has called Colorado home for nearly 30 years and considers herself an adopted native. Outside of the therapy room, she loves spending time with her daughters and grandpups, traveling, concerts, kayaking, hiking, and gardening. She’s also a longtime video-game fan and can occasionally be found disappearing into the worlds of Skyrim or Fallout—which she considers a perfectly legitimate form of recreation.