About Marcella
Marcella Strickland-Ramsay is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps people can use to handle depression, relationship tensions, career stress, and major life changes. Her style is warm and direct, aiming to make therapy feel understandable and doable for busy parents and adults.
Marcella centers sessions on each person's story. She creates space for people to speak without judgment and listens for what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clarity and small, achievable changes rather than overwhelming plans. Her background includes community-based programs, juvenile justice settings, and academic roles. That experience shaped her ability to work with people facing trauma, identity questions, and big transitions.
She draws on social work values and trauma-aware practices to guide her work. In therapy Marcella uses a person-centered frame rooted in empathy and genuineness. She pays attention to cultural, spiritual, and social influences that affect daily life.
Her work also attends to feelings like guilt, shame, and the effort it takes to practice self-love. People who want straightforward support with anxiety, coping skills, forgiveness, or navigating divorce and separation may find her approach helpful. She aims to partner with clients to identify barriers and try realistic strategies that fit their lives.
How Marcella’s Approaches Work Online
Marcella draws on person-centered practices that focus on listening with empathy and following the client's lead. This approach helps people clarify what matters, feel heard, and set small, meaningful goals. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns.She also applies trauma-aware and culturally responsive perspectives. That means she pays attention to past experiences and cultural context when deciding what to try in sessions. This focus helps when coping with guilt, shame, identity questions, or the aftermath of difficult events.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist works with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. If one way of working isn’t helping, adjustments are made together until a better fit is found.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, more frequent communication. These options make therapy more flexible for different schedules and situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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