Clinical Social Worker
39180 Liberty Street
Suite 205
Fremont, CA
Marcene Marcus, LCSW, is our passionate Clinical Director of Outpatient Services, with over 3 decades of mental health fieldwork serving populations from early childhood to older adulthood. Her academic journey began at UC Santa Barbara, where she obtained her BA & headed a stress peer counselor team. She then studied Gerontology at USC & served as a teaching assistant. Her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work was earned at Columbia University, where she also had a rare opportunity to complete a law minor.
She is grateful to play a pivotal role in shaping Ocean Psychiatry’s strategic vision & operational excellence. She oversees clinical training, ensures adherence to best practices (encouraging evidenced based techniques), & drives initiatives that enhance the quality of care for both clients & associate clinicians under her supervision. Her leadership style maintains integrity through creative innovations & compassionate care, while prioritizing cutting-edge education for staff.
This Clinical Director’s experience spans a diverse spectrum of settings including: pre-schools, non-profits, residential treatment, medical offices, insurance companies, and college counseling centers. Her unifying approach combines a psychodynamic framework with an emphasis on developing powerful therapeutic alliances. Marcene's main areas of clinical specialty are: resistance & blocks in therapy, reparenting the self, positive parenting & co-parenting, infertility, adoption, divorce, relationship repair, trauma recovery, grief & loss healing, narrative therapy, art therapy, career & wellness optimization.
Marcene contributes to advancing the field through innovations such as: Conceiving Victory Inc., a private practice she founded assisting individuals, couples, & families in overcoming life's challenges; co-creating a Network of Psychotherapy Professionals for regular clinical consultation to promote ethics & best practices; & most recently launching Ocean Psychiatry’s own Associate Training Program to nurture the growth of master-level clinicians as they pursue licensure. In her downtime, she loves music, painting, writing, reading, swimming, playing fetch with her dogs and old-fashioned card or board games.
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Depression
Anxiety
PTSD
Bipolar Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Psychotherapy
Autism
Telemedicine
Medication Management
Substance Abuse
Insomnia
Spravato
ADHD
Location
Ocean Psychiatry
39180 Liberty Street
Suite 205
Fremont, CA, 94538
More About Marcene Marcus, LCSW
NPI Number
1871616599
Provider's Gender
Female
Reviews
Always keeps me on track
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Janice is the best after searching for years for a therapist who actually not only listens, but gives me tools to use for my mental health issues. I love her hope to keep her Mike therapist forever.
Kashmita is always amazing! She is never bias, well always give me her honest opinion and assessment, makes me feel comfortable, never judge me, and she is so down to earth and relatable. I always look forward to my sessions with her. Thank you, Kash for always showing up for me every week, and helping me gain more clarity.
Janice Janice is really helpful to me. It has the patience to understand what I’m going through so I would recommend your services anybody.
As always Janice is very supportive, answers all my questions, and addresses all issues.
Very supportive and compassionate!
excellent listener
I’ve worked with her for some time now. She conducts herself in a professional manner while being very thoughtful. I simply have nothing but good things to say about her.
Comfortable to talk with and relatable and realistic.
I adore her so much! She has helped me so much with my trauma, and lots of my issues. I always look forward talking with her every week!!!
I love Janice after many years of therapist I truly believe she is my godsend. Every other therapist just continue to change your add-on more medications which usually made things worse for me. Janice seems to have found what works for me, and for that I thank her so much.
She is very nice and very supportive!
She’s very supportive!
Ms. Janice Cahambing is very supportive.
It was short and nice. Got what i needed done and got a message about by blood work later. Will be talking to my dr. About it next week.
A++
Kashmita has helped by giving us tools and practical steps to work towards. Very knowledgeable and caring therapist. A++
Kashmita makes me feel comfortable and at ease discussing difficult topics.
Good experience talk about what has been happening with me.
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She is absolutely wonderful!!! Best therapist I have ever had…She’s definitely #1 in my books
She is knowledgeable and friendly
I look forward to therapy each week! Brittany is so easy to talk to and I always have a fun time with her.
Love Brittany! I feel like she really understands and cares for me. She has helped me alot with coping and building skills that help me every day.
Excellent
She’s very supportive!
Good listener, helpful suggestions.
She challenges me and I need that
Janice is the best!
