Ciara Wallace is a Licensed Master Social Worker, therapist, and advocate who is passionate about helping teens, adults, and families navigate life’s challenges with compassion, honesty, and hope. She creates a warm, supportive, and nonjudgmental space where clients can show up as they are, without pressure to have everything figured out.
Ciara earned her Master of Social Work from Howard University. She also holds a Master of Public Health and Master of Kinesiology from Augusta University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from University of Georgia. Her professional experience includes psychiatric residential treatment, child welfare and family support services, crisis intervention, veteran support services, and community mental health.
Through her work across helping systems, Ciara has supported children, adolescents, adults, and families navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, grief, family conflict, life transitions, and complex systems of care. Through her work in child welfare, she also supported families in strengthening protective factors, improving stability, navigating difficult transitions, and working toward reunification and long-term wellbeing.
Her therapeutic approach is trauma-informed, person-centered, and strengths-based, integrating CBT, DBT, practical coping skills, reflection, and honest conversation tailored to each client’s unique needs and lived experiences. Clients often describe Ciara as warm, grounding, easy to talk to, and genuine, while also helping them build insight, confidence, emotional resilience, and healthier ways of coping.
Ciara is especially passionate about supporting adolescents, women, helping professionals, veterans, and individuals who feel misunderstood, overwhelmed, or emotionally exhausted. As a mother, veteran, survivor, and woman living with Multiple Sclerosis, she understands the weight of carrying invisible battles while continuing to show up for others. These experiences deepen her empathy and reinforce her belief that healing should feel safe, collaborative, and human.
She believes therapy is not about becoming someone else. It is about creating space to breathe, process, heal, and reconnect with yourself in a way that feels compassionate, grounded, and real.
“I know what it feels like to carry things that other people cannot always see. My goal in therapy is to create a space where clients feel safe enough to be honest, supported enough to grow, and accepted as they are.”