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I'm Dr. Stacy McCall-Martin

Let me guide you through this season

Ecclesiastes 3 reminds us there is a season and a purpose for everything. Some seasons last a lifetime. Others pass in a moment. All of them are trying to teach you something, and you do not have to figure out the lesson alone.

​A life marked by exhaustion, worry, and survival mode was never the plan for you. Your life has purpose, and this season is your invitation to stop managing it from a place of depletion and start tending it from a place of rest.

 

My approach to mental health and healing is rooted in both lived experience and rigorous professional training. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Doctor of Social Work, I integrate cognitive behavioral therapy, womanist theology, and lliberation psychology, blending evidence-based clinical care with a deep commitment to justice, faith, and whole-person restoration. As a Christian Black woman, wife, mother, therapist, coach, and scholar, I understand the layered complexities we carry and how profoundly they shape our emotional, relational, and spiritual well-being.

 

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I did not arrive at this work from a distance. I arrived from within it.

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I am a scholar-practitioner, which means the research and the room inform each other. My doctoral study, Selah & Abide: Black Women’s Shift from Stress to Flourishing, developed and tested a faith-integrated mindfulness group for Black women carrying the weight of always being strong. I designed it with women from a predominantly Black church in South Riverside County, and their experience now shapes how I care for every client.

Rest is my love language. When you intentionally rest nothing can disrupt a clear mind, a soft heart, or a willing spirit.

My deepest passion is walking alongside women from marginalized communities, especially Black women, their marriages, and the families they hold together, who are exhausted from running on empty and ready to reclaim lives that feel aligned, joyful, and whole. My style is warm, conversational, and unapologetically real. Authenticity is not just my jam, it is the foundation of the work. Trust begins with truth, and I will never ask you to go somewhere I am not willing to go first.

 

I believe deeply in the sacredness of rest. God did not rest on the seventh day because He needed to. He modeled rest because He knew we would. That is not a small thing, that is a blueprint.

 

There are systems, relationships, and expectations that are sustained by your burnout. Choosing rest is not weakness. It is resistance. It is liberation. When you begin to slow down, heal, and reclaim what is within your control, everything shifts, your relationship with yourself, your loved ones, your calling, and your God.

 

I am here to walk with you as you stop accepting what you cannot change, and start changing what you can no longer accept.

 

Your season of flourishing is not coming. It is already here. Let's tend it together.

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EDUCATION, CREDENTIALS, AND CERTIFICATIONS:

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

  • California Baptist University, Doctor of Social Work (DSW), 2026

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California, LMFT #53584, since 2013

  • CSU Dominguez Hills, M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy

  • CSU Long Beach, B.A. in Psychology

  • Embodied Life: Culturally Sensitive Eating Disorder Treatment for Black and BIPOC Clients

  • Goldman Sachs One Million Black Women: Black in Business, Fall 2026 cohort

  • California Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT)

  • The Womanist Collective

  • The Embodied Care Network Advisory

  • The Christian Association of Psychological Studies (CAPS

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

-Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)

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