The Consultation Team
| California Associates is a consultation team of independent practitioners. Each team member is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice or an intern under supervision provided by Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. The purpose of the affiliation is limited to consultation, clinical feedback, resource and referral sharing, and ongoing training. The consultation team is not a business entity in any way. Each practitioner on the team is either in individual private practice, employed by another organization, or a student in training. The Consultation Team has received one of the highest levels of training offered for Dialectical Behavior Therapy from Behavioral Tech, LLC of Seattle, Washington. This is the training organization founded by Marsha Linehan, Ph.D. Please refer to www.behavioraltech.com for more information on the Consultation Team Model. To learn more about California Associates call (408) 893-4032. As a consultation team, we share a vision of quality care for our clients based on the sound, clinically-proven principals of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and a commitment to ongoing research and training. We believe Dialectical Behavior Therapy has tremendous potential to help a variety of mental health difficulties. We are committed to maintaining the program’s integrity as it was designed by DBT founder Marsha Linehan, Ph.D., and to facilitating an ongoing dialogue about its application in new and different ways. | |
| Our DBT Consultation Team Leader: Melinda Carlisle, M.A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, MFC43877 Consultation Team Leader Melinda is an Intensively Trained DBT Therapist and Skills Trainer, trained by Behavioral Tech, LLC www.behavioraltech.com. She formed the California Associates consultation team to provide advanced support/guidance for clients in her full-time private practice in San Jose, CA, www.criticalpathcounseling.com. She specializes in working with Emotion Regulation Disorders including Personality Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Major Depression, and Anxiety and Panic Disorders. Melinda also specializes in working with "high conflict couples" with co-occurring mood disorders, and helping family members, adult children and spouses of individuals with chronic emotional disorders learn skills to deal with challenging behaviors . In addition, Melinda is president of SiliconValley Executive Advisory and Counseling LLC an organization development, coaching and counseling firm, http://www.siliconvalleyexecutiveadvisory.com. With over 15 years of experience working in management and as a consultant to technology companies, Melinda is developing a unique program of Counseling, Coaching and Interpersonal skills training for Professionals, Business Executives and their Teams. |