Jason Maldonado-Page

Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist and Social Worker

Jason Maldonado-Page is Head of the Systemic and Multimodal Training Portfolio at Tavistock Education and Training, and a Consultant Systemic Psychotherapist and Social Worker. He leads a range of postgraduate, professional and continuing professional development programmes and is committed to developing reflective, relational and inclusive approaches to education, supervision and professional practice.

With over twenty years’ experience across health, social care and higher education in both the UK and the USA, Jason has worked with children, young people, adults, couples and families in a range of specialist services. His clinical experience includes work in eating disorders, gender identity, learning disability, autism, cancer and bereavement, as well as fostering, adoption and kinship care. Alongside his educational leadership, he maintains an independent practice providing systemic psychotherapy, supervision and consultation, ensuring his teaching remains connected to contemporary clinical and organisational contexts.

Jason is passionate about high-quality professional and continuing professional education and lifelong learning. As a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, he has a particular interest in supporting practitioners, supervisors, educators and leaders to develop confidence, curiosity and critical reflexivity in their work. His teaching is informed by systemic, collaborative and social constructionist ideas and is grounded in a commitment to anti-racist, disability-attentive and decolonising approaches to education and practice.

An inclusive clinician, supervisor and educator, Jason is attentive to the ways identity, culture, power and lived experience shape relationships, learning and practice. He is Puerto Rican, was born in New York City, received his secondary education in rural Virginia, and has lived in London since 2003. These experiences continue to inform his curiosity about the use of self and how we each make meaning from our lives, relationships and communities.

Jason hopes the programmes he leads contribute to a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we live and work in. He actively encourages participation from people with a broad range of lived experiences, cultures, faiths, identities and backgrounds, recognising that diversity enriches learning, strengthens professional practice and supports more responsive services.

Jason is the course lead for Child, adolescent and family mental wellbeing multidisciplinary practice (ED24), Family and systemic psychotherapy supervision (M21) and Leadership and management in the public and voluntary sectors: a systemic perspective (CPD23).

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Professional registrations/accreditations:

• The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
• The Association for Family and Systemic Psychotherapy (AFSP)
• Higher Education Academy (Advance HE)
• Social Work England (SWE)

Publications:
• Maldonado-Page, J. (2010) A day in the life of a CLIC Sargent Social Worker. Contact (a CCLG magazine): A helping hand for families of children and young people with cancer, Spring, Issue 46, page 8.

• Maldonado-Page, J. (2017) How DNA helped to go deeper: A Puerto Rican therapist’s reflections of his exploration of ethnicity. In: Helps, S. (Ed.) The Social Graces. Context: The magazine for family therapy and systemic practice in the UK, Issue 151, pages 23-26.

• Maldonado-Page, J. and Favier, S. (2018) An invitation to explore: A brief overview of the Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Development Service. In: Middleton, A. and Iantaffi, A. (Eds.) Working systemically with trans, non-binary and gender expansive people. Context: The magazine for family therapy and systemic practice in the UK, Issue 155, pages 18-22.

• Maldonado-Page, J. (2020) Book review: A critical approach to surrogacy: Reproductive desires and demands, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 38:3, pages 349–351.

• Dumbrill, M.; Maldonado-Page, J. and Scull, L. (2020) The Breakfast Club: A journey of peer supervision and mutual care. In: Brown, P. (Ed.) Self care / mutual care. Context: The magazine for family therapy and systemic practice in the UK, Issue 171, pages 5-8.

• Dandil, Y.; Kinnaird, E.; Maldonado-Page, J.; Nursigadoo, D.; Gomularz, J.; Baillie, C. and Tchanturia, K. (2021) Chapter 5: Using the Autism Lens: Milly’s Story: A Multidisciplinary Health Professional Team Approach in Supporting an Autistic Female with Anorexia Nervosa, In: Tchanturia, K. (Ed.) Supporting Autistic People with Eating Disorders: A Guide to Adapting Treatment and Supporting Recovery. Jessica Kingsley: London.

• Maldonado-Page, J. (2021) Chapter 9: Catching ‘Sparkling Moments’ with Family and Systemic Psychotherapy Sessions. In: Tchanturia, K. (Ed.) Supporting Autistic People with Eating Disorders: A Guide to Adapting Treatment and Supporting Recovery. Jessica Kingsley: London.

• Vrouva, I.; Maldonado-Page, J.; and Muller, N. (2021) Chapter 8: Working with gender diverse young people and their families. In: Rossouw, T.; Wiwe, M.; and Vrouva, I. (Eds.) Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents: A Practical Treatment Guide. Routledge: London.

• Maldonado-Page, J. (2024) Tavistock’s D24 course: Child, adolescent and family mental wellbeing multidisciplinary practice – reflections of a new course lead. In: Usiskin Cohen and Draper, A. (Eds.) Systemic leadership and management: curating rather than dictating. Context: The magazine for family therapy and systemic practice in the UK, Issue 193, pages 13-15.