Ramata Adebawo, LCSW

Ramata Adebawo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Oregon who brings seven years of clinical experience to her practice. She developed deep cultural awareness through her life journey of growing up outside the United States and later moving to the U.S., a path that shaped her commitment to honoring both differences and commonalities across cultures. That background informs her work with clients from varied religions, cultural traditions, and life experiences, and it underpins her focus on advocacy for people who may feel unheard or marginalized.

Her therapeutic stance is grounded in empathy, mindfulness, and a client-centered orientation. Ramata combines strengths-based strategies with evidence-informed approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), solution-focused therapy, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), trauma-focused methods, emotionally-focused therapy (EFT), and psychodynamic perspectives to create individualized treatment plans. She strives to tailor interventions to each person’s needs, emphasizing collaboration, compassion, and sensitivity throughout the process.

Ramata works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting and family issues, self-esteem, career challenges, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, anger, depression, and coping with life transitions. She also brings experience addressing caregiver stress, immigration and multicultural concerns, prejudice and discrimination, post-traumatic stress, women’s issues, young adult concerns, and matters related to adoption and foster care. Fluent in English and Lingala, she aims to meet clients where they are and support their goals with practical skills and thoughtful reflection.

Committed to partnership and advocacy, Ramata emphasizes respectful teamwork with each client. Her practice centers on helping people find pathways forward by combining clinical skill with cultural humility and a focus on meaningful, achievable outcomes.