Marcella Strickland-Ramsay, LCSW

Marcella Strickland-Ramsay is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and educator who brings ten years of experience to her therapeutic practice. She centers her work on compassion, authenticity, and respect for each person’s lived experience, holding a belief that people have the capacity for growth, healing, and change when given a supportive environment to explore their story.

Her orientation is person-centered and grounded in Rogerian principles, emphasizing empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard. She integrates social work values, trauma-informed care, and culturally responsive practice to honor the social, cultural, and spiritual identities that shape an individual’s life.

Marcella’s background includes work in community-based settings, juvenile justice environments, and academic spaces, where she supported people facing trauma, identity development challenges, depression, anxiety, and life transitions. She approaches healing as both an individual and relational process, believing that internal change often influences families and communities.

In session, Marcella creates a collaborative, nonjudgmental space where the client’s voice guides the work. Her aim is to meet clients where they are, identify barriers to wellness, and partner on practical steps toward the life clients want to create. Areas of specialty include stress, anxiety, relationships, career concerns, depression, and coping with life changes, with additional focus on divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and building self-love.