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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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