Mazella is a clinical social worker and Women’s Services Liaison. She is coordinator of the social work internship and serves on the EBIC (Eating and Body Image Concerns) treatment team. She joined CAPS in September 1995. She received her Doctorate in Human Development from Walden University-Institute for Advanced Studies, and her Master of Social Work from Smith College. Mazella served her internship in the
Mental Health Division at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  

Mazella’s professional interests include: brief individual and couples therapy, ethnic and cross-cultural issues, women’s issues, group therapy, supervision and training outreach programs. An additional counseling interest involves her focus on self-esteem issues within a developmental framework. Mazella is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Black Social Workers. She is a Clinical Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University.