“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”

- African proverb

Helping other healthcare professionals do their best work in mental health.

 

Supervision

Dr. Maxwell has years of experience supervising psychotherapy casework for mental healthcare trainees in medical center settings. He is available to supervise postdoctoral clinical psychologists, master’s level therapists, and other mental healthcare providers in the greater Kansas City area and beyond. Fees for supervisory services are negotiable according to need (e.g., frequency).

Dr. Maxwell specializes in supervising casework involving complex personality-related pathology.

Training

Dr. Maxwell is preparing didactic and other materials for continuing education workshops, seminars, and more. Please check back at a later date for more information as these materials and opportunities become available. Expect materials about:

  • Understanding and treating borderline personality disorder

  • Addressing the heterogeneity of narcissistic psychopathology

  • Using contemporary psychodynamic principles alongside CBT interventions

  • Treating borderline personality disorder via teletherapy

  • And more . . .

Outreach

Dr. Maxwell welcomes opportunities to collaborate with healthcare and other professionals seeking to raise awareness of mental health in their communities. He is available for opportunities to disseminate research-supported interventions, raise mental health awareness, and address mental health stigma in settings of all kinds.

Selected Presentations

  • Maxwell, R. (2025, December 12). Seasonal affective disorder and major depressive disorder: Making sense of similarities and differences [Workshop presentation]. Metropolitan Community College, MCC Disability and Neurodiversity Affinity Group, Kansas City, MO, United States.

  • Maxwell, R. (2025, November 17). A brief introduction to risk assessment: Violent and sexual offenses [Seminar]. Forensic Interest Group, Kansas City University, Kansas City, MO, United States.

  • Maxwell, R. (2025, November 7). Diagnosis and treatment of narcissistic personality disorder [Workshop presentation]. Mental Health America of the Heartland Continuing Education Program, Kansas City, KS, United States. 

  • Maxwell, R. (2025, November 6). Transference-focused psychotherapy: A primer for the newly acquainted [Workshop presentation]. İzmir University of Economics, İzmir, Türkiye.

  • Maxwell, R. (2025, October 31). Transference-focused psychotherapy: A primer for the newly acquainted [Workshop presentation]. Kansas Psychological Association, Lunch and Learn, Kansas City, MO, United States.

  • Maxwell, R. (2025, July 25). Diagnosis and treatment of borderline personality disorder [Workshop presentation]. Mental Health America of the Heartland Continuing Education Program, Kansas City, KS, United States. 

  • Maxwell, R. (2024, September 13). Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: Diagnosis and treatment [Workshop presentation]. Mental Health America of the Heartland Continuing Education Program, Kansas City, KS, United States. 

  • Maxwell, R. (2024, April 19). Using TFP to understand and treat borderline and narcissistic personality disorders: A primer. [Guest lecture]. Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center, Kansas City, MO.

  • Maxwell, R. (2024, March 28). Always on: Work-from-home, productivity, and mental health. [Workshop presentation]. Overland Park Chamber of Commerce, Talent Resource Roundtable Series, Overland Park, KS.

  • Maxwell, R. (2023, October 20). Beyond the showman: Heterogeneity of narcissistic pathology. [Workshop presentation]. MOPA Webinar, Missouri Psychological Association, Springfield, MO, United States.

  • Maxwell, R. (2023, October 12). Understanding, assessing, and treating depressive symptoms among older adults: A primer [Symposium presentation]. University of Kansas Medical Center 9th Annual Educational Geriatric Symposium, Hays, KS, United States.

Selected Publications

  • Maxwell, R. (in preparation). Older adults living in rural areas. In Kilwein, T.M., Cashel, M.L., & Knutson, D. (Eds). Bridging the gap: Addressing mental healthcare disparities in rural special populations.

  • Knutson, D., Cashel, M.L., Juntunen, C., Kilwein, T., Connelly, C., Maxwell, R., McKibbin, C., Ross, R., & Kerns, C.L. (2025). The Rural Healthcare Landscape Survey: A National Behavioral Health Needs Assessment. Health, Education, and Rural Empowerment Lab at Oklahoma State University.

  • Lynn, S.J., Polizzi, C., Merckelbach, H., Chui-De Chiu, Maxwell, R., van Heughten-van der Klost, D., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2022). Dissociation and dissociative disorders reconsidered: Beyond sociocognitive and trauma models toward a transtheoretical framework. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 18.

  • Lynn, S.J., Maxwell, R., Merckelbach, H., Lilienfeld, S.O., van Heughten-van der Klost, D., Miskovic, V. (2019). Dissociation and its disorders: Competing models, future directions, and a way forward. Clinical Psychology Review, 73.

  • Clarkin, J.F., Maxwell, R., & Sowislo, J. (2019). Comparative psychotherapy research focused on the treatment of borderline personality disorder. In M. Luezinger-Bohlber, & M. Solms (Eds.). Outcome Research and the Future of Psychoanalysis: Clinicians and Researchers in Dialogue. New York: Routledge.

  • Maxwell, R., Lynn, S.J., & Strauss, G.P. (2018). Trait emotion regulation predicts individual differences in momentary emotions and experience. Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236618781775

  • Maxwell, R., & Lynn, S.J. (2018). Dissociative disorders: Treatment and evaluation. In D. David, S.J. Lynn, & G. Montgomery (Eds.). Evidence-based psychotherapy: The state of the science and practice. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

  • Maxwell, R., Lynn, S.J., & Lilienfeld, S.O. (2017). Failures to imagine: Decreases in mental imagery predict increases in psychopathy and difficulties in emotion regulation. Imagination, Cognition and Personality: Consciousness in Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice, 36, 270-230. doi: 10.1177/0276236616679963.

“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.”

- Fred Rogers