Tracey Taldon, LICSW
Tracey Taldon, LICSW, Founder/CEO/Clinical Supervisor, is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts and nonprofit leader dedicated to advancing culturally responsive mental health care. A first-generation Haitian American and graduate of the Simmons School of Social Work, she has been licensed for approximately 14 years and brings extensive experience across community-based settings. Her clinical expertise centers on trauma treatment within communities of color, where she adapts evidence-based practices to address cultural barriers, reduce stigma, and improve engagement in care.
Tracey is the Founder, CEO, and Clinical Supervisor of Wellness for Our Future, LLC, which she established to create a space that provides not only treatment but also education to normalize mental health care in underserved communities. Her professional background spans domestic violence shelters, in-home therapy with families and youth, group homes, and programs serving individuals with tri-morbid presentations involving mental health challenges, medical complexities, and homelessness. In 2023, following a year of pro bono work supporting migrant families from Haiti, Venezuela, and other countries seeking asylum, she co-founded Healing & Wellness: Empowering Migrant Minds. The nonprofit delivers mobile mental health crisis stabilization services across Massachusetts, offering culturally adapted assessments, bilingual and bicultural crisis intervention, workshops, care coordination, medication bridging, and staff training within shelter systems.
In addition to her executive leadership, Tracey serves as an officer of Haitian Mental Health Network Inc, which she helped resurrect and expand into a comprehensive statewide directory of mental health professionals and community resources for immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking families. Her daily work reflects the breadth of her leadership—managing administrative operations, supervising clinicians, providing direct clinical services, responding to referrals, and overseeing both private practice and nonprofit initiatives. Through strategic vision and community-centered care, Tracey continues to champion equitable access to mental health services and sustainable support systems for marginalized populations.
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LICSW)
• Simmons School of Social Work - MSW, Clinical/Medical Social Work
• Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA)
• Haitian Mental Health Network (Officer)
• Co-founded nonprofit providing mobile mental health crisis support to migrant families (2023)
• Officer at Haitian Mental Health Network
• One year of pro bono mental health crisis support to migrant families in Massachusetts shelter settings
• Community service work during college basketball career
What do you attribute your success to?
I honestly attribute my success to the guidance and coaching I received from my college basketball coach during my undergraduate years at Worcester State University. When I first started as a freshman, I thought she was too strict and militant, and I even quit at one point for about a week, but she wouldn't let me quit. Through four years of playing college basketball under her leadership, she taught me about humility, discipline, and how to care for people. She constantly had us doing community service work, whether we were playing tournaments in Tennessee, Hawaii, or even in other countries. At the time, I didn't fully understand the depth of how impactful that was, but it really shaped who I am today and who I was becoming then. Her leadership helped me develop the characteristics I have today, including the discipline and commitment that have carried me through my career. Those seeds that were planted in college, through playing sports and being guided by my coach, really started to play out internally for me and guided me toward finding work that was fulfilling and meaningful, rather than just following a predetermined plan.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever received was from a professor in social work school who told our class that every social worker needs a social worker. What that means is that as you're doing this work, whatever work it is, it's going to be challenging and it's going to be hard, so you need to make sure that you have the proper support that you need. I think that's probably the best advice that anyone can give anyone working in this field or working with people in this way. You need to have a good process or plan to take care of your own mental health. I haven't fully implemented this yet myself, but it's advice that has stayed with me and that I recognize as crucial for sustaining yourself in this demanding field.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Family time is huge for me. Spending time with my kids is really important. I also value staying active and being physically engaged, which connects back to my love of basketball. I miss playing basketball and wish I had never stopped, because being active is definitely important to me as a hobby and way of life. In my work, I'm driven by the values of creating meaningful impact, feeling passionate about what I do, and finding purpose in serving others. I learned early on that you have to be fulfilled and passionate about your work because that's what keeps you in the field doing the work long-term. Being fulfilled, feeling passionate about the work, and feeling purpose and meaning are what sustain me professionally.