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Carmelle Beliard, LICSW, works with individuals who are navigating complex life experiences, with a focus on first-generation, BIPOC, and immigrant clients. Many of the clients she supports are balancing multiple roles, carrying intergenerational expectations, and seeking a supportive space to process how cultural identity, systemic barriers, and personal relationships intersect. Carmelle is especially passionate about supporting those who may feel overlooked in traditional therapy spaces and ensures that each client’s story is met with respect, empathy, and care.
Her therapy approach is collaborative, conversational, and strengths-based. Carmelle believes that clients are the experts of their own lives and views therapy as a partnership where growth occurs through reflection, new perspectives, and practical strategies. She incorporates culturally responsive and anti-racist principles into her work, while also helping clients unlearn unhealthy patterns and reframe challenges. Sessions often focus on developing emotional awareness, enhancing communication, and exploring healthier ways to manage stress, grief, and relationships.
Carmelle’s professional background combines clinical expertise with a commitment to social justice. She is licensed in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Texas, Illinois, and Connecticut, and brings both lived and professional experience as a Haitian American and first-generation professional to her work. Her background in private practice and consulting informs her ability to support clients with diverse needs while maintaining an inclusive, affirming environment.
Voices Forward Collective, Carmelle’s private practice, offers telehealth sessions. She offers flexible scheduling options to accommodate the needs of busy professionals and students, and welcomes clients from multiple states through secure, HIPAA-compliant platforms.
Years of Experience: 8 years
Adjustment difficulties & disorders - Support around adapting to new and/or challenging life circumstances; skill-building for improved stress management and reduction of anxiety.
College & graduate student mental health - Specialized strategies for common issues of young adulthood, including school and career stressors, support around healthy relationships, existential concerns, drug or alcohol issues, eating disorders, and anxiety and/or depression.
Cultural adjustment - Acclimating to a new environment; managing stress and coping with feelings of loss and separation from familiar people and places
Life transitions - Coping with difficult or impactful life changes, such as moving to a new area, relationship transitions, child rearing, or career changes; learning self-care to better manage resulting stress
Race & cultural identity - Exploring topics of racial, cultural, and ethnic background as it relates to one’s family origins and personal identity
Entrepreneur mental health - Processing through the emotional highs and lows of running a business; learning about one’s values and exploring how these values impact the decisions that one makes for the business
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