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    CriticalPath Counseling is a counseling and consulting practice that offers evidence based coaching, education, and  psychotherapy in California, San Jose and Silicon Valley. Our programs are designed to deliver timely and efficient coaching and counseling to help professionals  improve their mental health, achieve their goals and achieve success.

    Our specialty is teaching the behaviors of psychological flexibility and interpersonal strategy which incorprates the best empirically supported tools and techniques for self-management  and problem-solving. We work with professionals in a variety of industries; specifically, we help professionals leverage their strengths and reframe their mission  during transitions and stressful reorganizations, challenging leadership changes, and tricky project situations. We are psychotherapists and people consultants with extensive project and program management backgrounds and we love to dig in to the weeds to get you through sticky situations fast.


    ""I am here to help you dig out, and start feeling better & happier""

    San Jose Licensed Psychotherapist and Consultant Melinda Carlisle Brackett is an experienced CBT and DBT Therapist in San Jose whose expertise comes from advanced clinical training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior combined with over 17 years of clinical counseling experience. She has been a consulting Project Management Executive in a fast-paced technology environment for decades in Silicon Valley. Not only has she worked under the same high pressure demands as many of her clients, she has also worked with a variety of professionals as an organizational development consultant, trainer, and executive coach.

     

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    Melinda Carlisle Brackett, M.A Psychotherapist, Consultant, and Educator    

    Melinda Carlisle Brackett, M.A is a Licensed Therapist and specialist in human behavior with an on-the ground, working knowledge of corporate culture.  Her experience as both a Director in Project Management and  organizational process development  and leadership consultant make her an ideal resource for corporate wellness programs, executives, managers and key contributors.

    Melinda utilizes the best of evidence based treatments, tools and strategies in all her coaching work and private psychotherapy practice. She prefers empirically supported assessment measures to guide her individual and team consultation and she empowers her clients in the corporate sector with individual road maps, timely, customized communication strategies and talking points, change strategies, and leadership skills. Her clients include: ebay, Microsoft, Hitachi, NASA, Seagate Technologies.

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