Brandon Scott

Background

About Brandon Scott

Brandon Scott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Northwestern University and a Master of Social Work from Smith College School of Social Work. Brandon brings over five years of clinical experience across community-based mental health, school-based, and outpatient settings. He currently serves as a Staff Therapist at The Josselyn Center, where he works with a diverse caseload with a particular passion for serving children, adolescents, and young adults. Brandon is actively working toward his certification as a Registered Play Therapist (RPT), reflecting his deep commitment to developmentally attuned, creative, and strengths-based therapeutic practice.Brandon's clinical interests center on working with BIPOC children, adolescents, and young adults within marginalized communities, providing accessible, culturally attuned, and strengths-based interventions and mental health resources. His trauma-informed, relational framework is shaped both by his clinical training and his own lived experiences navigating systemic challenges, including racism, food insecurity, and housing instability, and perhaps more importantly, by the protective factors that allowed him to not only survive but thrive. A school social worker who recognized his struggles and connected him with community resources. Educators who identified his learning differences and advocated fiercely for his potential. Mentorship programs that opened doors and expanded his sense of what was possible.Brandon's mission is to hold and create spaces of joy, creativity, and playfulness for communities that are too often deprived of them. He believes that centering joy and genuine connection in therapeutic work with youth is not only good clinical practice, it is an act of resistance. Now, it is his turn to be that protective factor for the youth and families who look like him.