Healing begins when you stop repeating the patterns you were raised with and start embodying the patterns you want your children to repeat instead. This is how we create a legacy of healing. My mission is to create a legacy of healing in my own life and to support you in creating one in yours.
Meet Mary Allison
Mary Allison Jensen (LICSW) is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Washington State–Approved Clinical Supervisor, and the Founder and Clinical Director of Tacoma Wellness Collective. Her work is grounded in evidence-based frameworks including attachment theory, DBT, early childhood mental health, and trauma-informed care. Throughout her career, she has supported individuals, parents, and helping professionals in understanding the belief systems and unconscious patterns that shape how they behave, care for themselves, and relate to others.
Her clinical background reflects a longstanding commitment to understanding how systems — families, communities, workplaces, and generational histories — influence the ways people learn to cope. Mary Allison holds specialized certifications in Compassion Fatigue and Clinical Trauma, along with a post-graduate certificate in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health from the University of Washington. These foundations guide the way she teaches, supervises, and supports others in cultivating stability, clarity, and emotional resilience.
She founded Tacoma Wellness Collective to create the kind of practice she believes the mental health field deserves — one rooted in ethical, sustainable care for both clients and clinicians. Her intention has always been to build a place where therapists can grow without burning out, and where clients receive support from professionals who are grounded, well-resourced, and practicing what they teach.
Mary Allison’s leadership is rooted in consistency, clarity, and a deep commitment to modeling the same practices she teaches. As a clinical supervisor, she believes that sustainable care begins with clinicians who feel supported, resourced, and able to tend to their own wellbeing with intention. She approaches supervision with curiosity rather than correction, creating space for therapists to grow their skills while staying connected to their own values and limits.
Her approach to leadership is shaped by the belief that clinician well-being is essential to ethical, effective practice. She encourages honest conversations about boundaries, burnout, and the emotional load of this work, helping clinicians develop the habits and practices that allow them to stay grounded over the long term. For Mary Allison, ethical practice cannot be separated from sustainable practice — both require clinicians to show up energized and engaged rather than drained and depleted.
At Tacoma Wellness Collective, she has built a culture where clinicians are supported, resourced, and encouraged to work in ways that honor their well-being. The therapists on her team are equipped to do the inner work required to offer consistent, attuned care to others. Through supervision, mentoring, and modeling her own ongoing growth, Mary Allison ensures that every clinician at Tacoma Wellness Collective can practice in a way that is values-aligned, ethical, and genuinely sustainable.
In addition to her clinical and supervisory work, Mary Allison is a sought-after speaker who teaches on burnout, boundaries, compassion fatigue, and sustainable care for helping professionals. She brings a grounded, relatable presence to trainings and workshops, offering practical insight shaped by years of experience supporting clinicians, educators, caregivers, and community organizations.
Her speaking style is warm and relatable — focused on helping people understand themselves more clearly, navigate their work with greater intention, and move away from survival mode toward practices that actually sustain their wellbeing. Whether she’s teaching in a clinical training, a school district, a healthcare setting, or a community nonprofit, Mary Allison’s goal is always the same: to translate complex emotional processes into language that feels accessible, honest, and actionable.
Across settings, she is known for helping groups identify the patterns that keep them exhausted, reconnect with what matters, and build skills that support long-term resilience. Her workshops mirror the same principles that guide her clinical work and leadership: clarity, compassion, and the belief that sustainable care is both possible and necessary — for ourselves and the communities we serve.
In Mary Allison’s words:
Guiding Belief:
Self-care is an ethical obligation and a sacred responsibility. My definition of self-care is this: self-care is the beliefs, behaviors, and boundaries that support you in feeling how you want to feel.
My Self-Talk Sounds Like:
”Be a lighthouse, not a tugboat.” This is my constant reminder to myself to stay in my lane, focus my energy and effort where it matters, and continue to show up strong and steady for the people who need me.
Something You Might Not Know About Me:
In 2018, I wrote and self-published a 30-day guided journal called Align With Joy.
Behind the Scenes:
I’m the mom in a busy, blended family made up of three active teenagers and our own little zoo consisting of a dog named Wolf, a cat named Fox, and a tiny little grandma kitty who broke the mold and is named after a flower.
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