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Caitlin MacCalla, LMFT

Morgan Hill,CA

Summary

I have held a clinical license as a Marriage and Family Therapist for Seventeen years. I have worked with a diverse population over the span of my career as a mental health clinician in both community and clinical based settings. Seasoned psychotherapist with background in providing direct care and counseling services to individuals with mental health conditions.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Therapist

Private Practice-Tides of Healing
San Jose, Ca
03.2020 - Current
  • Provide both in-person and online therapy.
  • Trauma-Informed Therapist
  • Specialties include child and adolescent therapy, family systems counseling, co-parenting/parallel parenting, forensic psychology.
  • Modalities used: CBT and Narrative therapy.

Student Support Counselor

Oakwood School
Morgan Hill, Ca
08.2022 - Current
  • Counselor for K-12 private school.
  • Provide social-emotional and academic support to students.
  • Provide psychoeducation in-service trainings for faculty.
  • Support students with learning differences.
  • Provide student advocacy and consultation to faculty and administration.
  • College Board Coordinator and proctor for PSAT, SAT, and AP exams.
  • Provide crisis intervention.
  • Founder and Head of Faculty/Staff Inclusion and Belonging Committee.
  • Teach an Intro to Psychology elective to 10th-12th graders.

Therapist

CASA Therapy Project
Contra Costa County
03.2020 - Current
  • Provide telehealth pro bono therapy to foster youth between ages 14 and 24.
  • Attend ongoing trainings to ensure quality of care.
  • Trauma-Informed Therapy
  • CBT therapy

Counselor

The Harker School - Middle School Campus
Saratoga, ca
08.2018 - 06.2022
  • Provide both social/emotional and academic counseling to middle school-age students.
  • Ensure the implementation of accommodation plans in the classroom for students with identified learning differences.
  • Provide ongoing consultation to teachers and school staff regarding student needs.
  • Meet with parents to provide parenting strategies and referrals to support their child.
  • Facilitate Community Conversations, a group for students to increase emotional intelligence and self-care practices.
  • Build, educate, and facilitate a Social and Emotional Learning Curriculum.
  • Lead Member of Middle School Diversity Committee.
  • Member of Diversity Steering Committee for K-12
  • Facilitate a club for LGBTQ students and allies
  • Provide psycho-education opportunities to staff and parents that fosters empathy for students

Contract Social Worker

Dependency Advocacy Center
San Jose, CA
10.2018 - 10.2021
  • Provide psychosocial assessments of clients represented by DAC.
  • Conduct clinical interviews of clients represented by DAC.
  • Conduct observations of parent-child interactions.
  • Communicate with collateral contacts related to dependency cases.
  • Support clients of DAC during meetings with social services.
  • Provide written assessments detailing clinical impressions, observations, and recommendations.
  • Provide expert witness testimony to Dependency Court.

Family Court Mediator

Family Court Services
San Jose, Ca
02.2011 - 08.2018
  • Facilitate confidential child custody mediations and provide written mediated agreements.
  • Facilitate confidential mediations for Dependency Court.
  • Conduct child custody evaluations, prepare related child custody recommendations, and confidential reports.
  • Conduct child custody emergency screening investigations and prepare related child custody recommendations in order to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of children.
  • Provide expert witness testimony to Family Court hearings, informal court meetings, depositions, and trials.
  • Organize and Facilitate Best Practice Meetings to ensure productivity and quality of work.

Forensic Psychotherapist

Sharper Future
San Jose and San Francisco, Ca
10.2010 - 02.2011
  • Provide intensive weekly individual therapy to pretrial, federal, and state parolees.
  • Facilitate sex offender specific group therapy
  • Write monthly clinical progress reports for probation.
  • Write and implement clinical treatment plans and goals.
  • Conduct clinical sexual history interviews with clients in preparation for a polygraph.
  • Provide ongoing substance abuse assessments for drug-offending clients.

Domestic Violence/Parenting Without Violence

Turning Point Counseling Services
SAN JOSE/SUNNYVALE, CA
09.2006 - 11.2010
  • Collaborate with Adult Probation and the Superior Court System to provide comprehensive services to referred clients for domestic violence/parenting violence issues.
  • Complete monthly assessment reports to referring agencies to show continuum of services provided to client.
  • Facilitate Domestic Violence Batterer and Parenting Without Violence Groups to provide education, awareness, and prevention services to referred clients
  • Complete progress notes and continue ongoing assessments for individuals receiving services on assigned caseload.

Therapist at Andrew P Hill High School

Beacon
San Jose, Ca
08.2009 - 09.2010
  • Provide individual and group therapy to SED students in the Beacon Program.
  • Document clinical case notes and progress of clients.
  • Provide milieu therapy.
  • Provide crisis intervention
  • Work closely with school staff in the treatment of youth.
  • Attend and support youth in Individual Educational Plan meetings.

SOCIAL WORKER

Bay Area Youth Center
Hayward, Ca
11.2008 - 08.2009
  • Head Parenting for Teens Program
  • Provide case management for pregnant and parenting teen foster youth
  • Prepare and implement clinical assessments and treatment plans
  • Facilitate parenting classes
  • Support youth in preparing for emancipation, through teaching them independent living skills
  • Work collaboratively with Alameda County services providers
  • Provide crisis intervention and stabilization
  • Build collaborative relationships with community organizations
  • Bill MediCal

Family Facilitator/Clinician

East Field Ming Quong (EMQ) Uplift
San Jose, Ca
09.2006 - 09.2008
  • Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, while asserting effective decision making, to support children and family needs.
  • Prepare and implement clinical assessments, treatment plans, behavioral plans, and referrals to community resources.
  • Facilitate and provide supportive leadership within work groups and in meetings as an active participant in developing ideas and utilizing skills to complement family needs in a supportive-strength based approach.
  • Conduct community-based 5150 assessments/crisis intervention.
  • Member of the Cultural Competency Team

Education

M.A - Counseling Psychology

John F. Kennedy University
Campbell, CA
06.2006

B.A. - Humanities/Gender Studies and Psychology

Menlo College
Atherton, CA
05.2003

Skills

  • Expertise in the treatment of diverse clients
  • Extensive experience in organizational psychology
  • Strength-based perspective and approach
  • Trauma-informed
  • Forensic psychology
  • Highly effective, collaborative approach
  • Cultural humility
  • Expertise in family, child, and adolescent therapy
  • Expertise in co-parenting and parallel parenting counseling
  • Expertise in adult mental health
  • Grief counseling
  • Counseling
  • Solution-focused counseling
  • Therapeutic expertise
  • Psychology
  • Social skills teacher
  • Adept at conflict resolution
  • Building rapport
  • Case management and documentation
  • Intake assessments
  • PTSD specialist
  • Suicide risk assessments
  • Parenting skills educator

Pronouns

SHE/HER

Certification

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 09/01/08
  • Certified Domestic Violence Prevention Facilitator, 09/01/06

Activities

  • I enjoy reading, cooking, baking and spending time with my ten-year-old son during my free time.
  • I also invest my time in receiving ongoing training and education related to best practices in the fields of psychology, social work, education and child development.
  • I am deeply invested and passionate about social justice and providing support and advocacy for marginalized populations in the mental health, social services and educational systems.

Personal Information

License: LMFT 47854

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Student Support Counselor

Oakwood School
08.2022 - Current

Therapist

Private Practice-Tides of Healing
03.2020 - Current

Therapist

CASA Therapy Project
03.2020 - Current

Contract Social Worker

Dependency Advocacy Center
10.2018 - 10.2021

Counselor

The Harker School - Middle School Campus
08.2018 - 06.2022

Family Court Mediator

Family Court Services
02.2011 - 08.2018

Forensic Psychotherapist

Sharper Future
10.2010 - 02.2011

Therapist at Andrew P Hill High School

Beacon
08.2009 - 09.2010

SOCIAL WORKER

Bay Area Youth Center
11.2008 - 08.2009

Domestic Violence/Parenting Without Violence

Turning Point Counseling Services
09.2006 - 11.2010

Family Facilitator/Clinician

East Field Ming Quong (EMQ) Uplift
09.2006 - 09.2008

M.A - Counseling Psychology

John F. Kennedy University

B.A. - Humanities/Gender Studies and Psychology

Menlo College

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