Marquita Williams

Marquita C. Williams has had over 18 years working comprehensively in the field of psychology. Currently, she is the CEO of Germantown Psychological Associates (GPA), a private practice group of professional psychologists and clinicians offering a vast array of mental health services including: Outpatient Psychotherapy Services, Assessment and Evaluation Services, School Based Mental Health Services and Clinical Consultation and Technical Assistance Services. She is also the Chief Consultant for MWilliams Consulting, LLC, which provides: Organizational Development and Professional Grant Writing Services.

In these roles she manages the daily oversight of the clinical and fiscal operations for three divisions of service programming, provides strategic planning and program development, design and implementation services. MWilliams Consulting services are offered to businesses and organizations, community based organizations, the School District of Philadelphia public and charter schools as well as to local colleges and university programs. As a partner organization, GPA offers specializations in couples and family therapy, child and adolescent therapy, traumatic stress disorders, anxiety, depression and pre-marital counseling. Ms. Williams is an experienced clinician, consultant and trainer with expertise across a wide clinical continuum. She has consulted extensively on issues related to children and adolescents, relationships, adult anxiety disorders, issues of clinical competency and areas of clinical programming. During her earlier years in the field she received a clinical and research appointment at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University Hospital. There she worked as a faculty researcher investigating the psychological aftermath of assault related, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Her later experiences have included working a a vocational consultant and employee assistance professional and private practice couples therapist in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Further, Ms. Williams has presented workshops, regionally, on a variety of topics including cultural competency in working with ethnic families, effective models of supervision, and sexual abuse and trauma.

Collectively, these experiences have yielded invitations to present at national conferences across the Unites States, such as the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity (NCORE), the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy (AABT) and the Cross-Cultural Roundtable held annually at Columbia University in New York City.

Ms. Williams holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology from Temple University, an MA in Counseling Psychology and an Ed. M. with a specialization in Cross-Cultural Psychology, both from Columbia University. She is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology at Temple University. Professionally, she holds memberships with the American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association, and the Delaware Valley Association of Black Psychologists.