Meet Our Team

 As a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. V (as she is referred to by her clients) launched Behavioral Health Programs at the North American Indian Center of Boston, Native American Lifelines and at the Wampanoag Tribe of Gayhead. She served as a long-time member of the National Suicide Prevention Committee for Native Americans. She currently provides historical trauma & cultural humility trainings for mental health professionals across the US and runs sacred parent training programs for Massachusetts tribal communities.

She has over 25 years’ of clinical mental health experience working with individuals of different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds expressing depression, dissatisfaction, stress, anxiety, unhappiness, and a lack of meaning in their life. She has helped thousands of individuals and families to overcome their obstacles and develop internal resources that bring contentment.

She is the creator of the award winning Chill Outz® app which consists of five stories that lead the child and adult to use the various evidence-based practices of mindfulness, progressive relaxation, breathing, storytelling, cognitive behavioral therapy, movement and sensory stimulation.   

 Charmain F. Jackman, Ph.D., is a cisgender, Black woman and a naturalized U.S. citizen of Barbadian heritage. With over 25 years in the field, Dr. Jackman’s career has focused on the mental wellbeing of communities of color. She is founder & CEO of InnoPsych, a mental health tech start-up on a mission to disrupt racial disparities in mental health and to increase access and utilization of mental health resources among people of color. 

Dr. Jackman has created social impact initiatives that support BIPOC communities across the globe. She served as Division 31’s Diversity Delegate Liaison for the Practice Leadership Conference in 2018 and was appointed co-chair of MPA’s first Presidential Task Force on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI), where she was instrumental in guiding the association’s EDI initiatives. Dr. Jackman was awarded the PLC Diversity Award in 2020 and the APA Citizen Psychologist Award from MPA in 2021. 

Dr. Jackman is a sought-after thought leader who has been featured on national media outlets such as the New York Times, NPR, PBS, Oprah Daily, Black Enterprise, and the Boston Globe.