Patrik J. Karlsson
Summary
Behavioral health leader with extensive experience in health care management, specializing in team leadership, program development, and budget oversight. Proven track record in implementing evidence-based treatment and culturally responsive care. Committed to fostering inclusive workplaces that empower employees to reach their full potential. Committted to providing the best possible treatment to both adults and teens in the optimal treatment setting.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Organizational and Leadership Consultant, Trainer
Palomarin Consulting
01.2024 - Current
- Co-founded and lead Palomarin Consulting, specializing in leadership coaching for behavioral health leaders.
- Delivered bimonthly training sessions on program development, team conflict resolution, and burnout prevention.
- Facilitated individual and group coaching sessions to enhance leadership skills among professionals.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Psychotherapist
Pacific DBT Collaborative Group Practice
, CA
03.2023 - Current
- Collaborative of intensively trained therapists in California.
- Provide adherent, comprehensive DBT services, including individual, group, and family work.
- Provide crisis assessments and interventions.
- Provide DBT-informed therapy to teens and adolescents.
- Specialize in the concurrent diagnosis of substance misuse.
- Attend Weekly Consultation Groups
- Write monthly blog posts.
- www.pacificdbt.com
Site Director
Kaiser Permanente
Richmond, California
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Oversaw a department of over 90 behavioral health providers, administrative staff, and psychiatrists.
- Fiscal stewardship of department resources.
- Oversaw multiple programs, including Child and Family Services, Teen IOP, Adult IOP, Clinical Case Management with SPMI Population, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program, Trauma Program, Adult Generalist Services, Triage, and Assessment Services.
- Worked with the department, medical center, and larger East Bay to develop, design, and coordinate space projects for behavioral health.
- Oversaw the redesign of the Child and Family clinic space, the Psychiatry waiting room, the new wing in Psychiatry, and the Triage space.
- Supported mental health training program.
DBT Program Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente
Richmond, Utah
01.2009 - 12.2021
- Helped develop and implement a comprehensive DBT program in a major health care organization.
- Wrote internal training grants to fund intensive training for 12 licensed therapists.
- Helped other Kaiser clinics develop DBT programs.
- Did quality control and administer fidelity measures through video coding.
Behavioral Health Manager
Kaiser Permanente
Richmond, California
03.2014 - 01.2021
- Department of Psychiatry.
- Oversaw 30 licensed clinicians.
- Supported the Adult Generalist Team, including the chronic conditions program, trauma track, perinatal wellness track, DBT track, depression track, and anxiety track programs.
- Managed crisis and after-hours on-call psychiatric crisis services, including liaising with the Emergency Department for psychiatric risk and disposition evaluations.
- Oversaw culturally responsive care teams
Director of Training – MSW Teaching Program
Kaiser Permanente
Richmond, Utah
01.2004 - 12.2015
- Department of Psychiatry/Northern California
- Created first premasters MSW trainee program in East Bay Psychiatry
- Created training manual for new supervisor including behaviorally anchored assessment tool of mental health trainees
- Ran 15+ interviews during annual trainee hiring cycle
- Oversaw training and clinical supervision
LCSW Examination Item Reviewer
Board of Behavioral Sciences
Sacramento, California
01.2009 - 12.2014
- Contributed clinical questions to the licensing exam for social workers.
- Reviewed exams with low performing questions
Harm Reduction Trainer
Harm Reduction Coalition
Oakland, California
01.2004 - 12.2014
- Provided harm reduction and motivational interviewing training to professional and paraprofessional staff in various community mental health, supportive housing, and drug treatment facilities.
- Provided training across State of California
Psychiatric Social Worker
Kaiser Permanente
Richmond
01.2004 - 03.2014
- Department of Psychiatry.
- Worked with adults who had chronic mental illness, with three or more hospitalizations in the last year.
- Ran support and DBT-based skills groups.
- Provide CBTp psychotherapy.
- Ran McFarlane-style Multifamily Support and Education Groups.
- Coordinated care with inpatient services.
- Coordinated with the county to obtain conservatorship.
- Conducted home visits.
Crisis Clinical Social Worker
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
Berkeley, CA
01.2003 - 12.2004
- Emergency Department
- Created crisis protocols for high-risk patients in psychiatric crisis.
- Developed an initial psychiatric assessment to support various dispositions, including 5150.
- Worked closely in an interdisciplinary model.
Clinical Social Worker/Intern Supervisor
University of California at San Francisco Department of Psychiatry
San Francisco
01.1999 - 03.2003
- UCSF at San Francisco General Hospital.
- Clinical Case Manager working with high users of the Emergency Department.
- Specialized in high risk populations that were dually or triply diagnosed including serious medical illness
- Mostly houseless or marginally housed populations
- I ran support groups and provided individual therapy.
- Case management services to coordinate services across various medical and county programs to provide access to resources.
Counselor
Orange County Halfway House
Garden Grove, California
01.1996 - 08.1997
- California Department of Corrections.
- Three month residential program
- Worked with low- to medium-risk incarcerated men to help them transition into life outside of prison.
- Provided case management that included connecting the man. to housing, jobs, and reunification with families and firends.
Education
Masters in Social Worker - Clinical And Administrative Track
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05-1997
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA05-1995
Skills
- Leadership coaching
- Program development and design
- Crisis intervention with Adults and Teens
- Team conflict resolution
- Behavioral health expertise including DBT and CBTp
- Conflict management
- Program evaluation
- Compliance oversight
- Resource allocation and fiscal stewardship
- Strategic planning
- Organizational development
- Diversity and inclusion
- Change management
- Space Design
Accomplishments
- 2016 RJ Erickson Outstanding Culturally Responsive Program, La Clinica, Kaiser Permanente
- 2014 Outstanding Supervisor of the Year, UC Berkeley
- 1999 Outstanding Student of the Graduating Social Work Class, University of Southern California
Certification
- LCSW21660, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, 2003
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Organizational and Leadership Consultant, Trainer
Palomarin Consulting
01.2024 - Current
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Psychotherapist
Pacific DBT Collaborative Group Practice
03.2023 - Current
Site Director
Kaiser Permanente
01.2021 - 01.2023
Behavioral Health Manager
Kaiser Permanente
03.2014 - 01.2021
DBT Program Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente
01.2009 - 12.2021
LCSW Examination Item Reviewer
Board of Behavioral Sciences
01.2009 - 12.2014
Director of Training – MSW Teaching Program
Kaiser Permanente
01.2004 - 12.2015
Harm Reduction Trainer
Harm Reduction Coalition
01.2004 - 12.2014
Psychiatric Social Worker
Kaiser Permanente
01.2004 - 03.2014
Crisis Clinical Social Worker
Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
01.2003 - 12.2004
Clinical Social Worker/Intern Supervisor
University of California at San Francisco Department of Psychiatry
01.1999 - 03.2003
Counselor
Orange County Halfway House
01.1996 - 08.1997
Masters in Social Worker - Clinical And Administrative Track
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology And Social Behavior
University of California, Irvine
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