Marcella Wagner, LCSW

Welcome to my therapy practice. I offer individual adult psychotherapy in both English and Spanish in Hillsborough, North Carolina and online. 

I see the therapeutic process as a collaborative partnership in your journey of healing, growth, and transformation. In my work with clients, I understand the present as influenced by significant life experiences, past relationships, intergenerational legacies, and the larger culture and systems we live in. Trauma, old patterns, and wounding live in our bodies and show up in many ways including in our relationships, beliefs, emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations. We will work together to understand, heal, and integrate these through a therapeutic approach that is relational, embodied, identity-affirming, anti-oppressive and spirit-oriented. 

Above all else, our therapeutic relationship will center the innate healing capacity within you and support your own trust in your intuition and inner knowing. 

MODALITIES

My therapeutic approach is influenced by several frameworks and modalities including:

• Psychodynamic psychotherapy

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for traumatic memory re-processing

• Internal Family System (parts work)

• Emotionally Focused Therapy for relationship dynamics

• Polyvagal Theory and nervous system awareness & regulation. 

AREAS OF FOCUS

I work with individuals around an array of areas including:

• childhood and intergenerational/ancestral trauma

• life transitions and crisis events 

• understanding of identity (gender, sexual, racial, cultural, ancestral, religious etc.) within the culture and larger systems we live in 

• relationship dynamics including communication & boundary-setting, reactive vs. generative conflict, healing past relational trauma through intimate partnership, and navigating poly or ENM dynamics

• embodiment, body image, and body positivity or neutrality

• sexuality and past sexual trauma 

• pregnancy, post-partum mental health, and parenting

• spirituality