Professional Profile
Melinda White – Professional Profile
Melinda White is a licensed psychotherapist specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She has worked extensively with adults, teens and children with ADHD, anxiety, depression, social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder, trichotillomania and panic disorder. She is a certified cognitive behavioral therapist, certified trainer/consultant and founding fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. She has been an affiliate of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy. Melinda is also a professional member of the Anxiety Disorders Association and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy. She served for two years as the Educational Coordinator for the U.C. Berkeley site of the National Institute of Mental Health’s multi-modal treatment study of ADHD. She was a special education teacher for 15 years and has a life credential as a learning disability specialist. She is currently in private practice in Berkeley, California.
Professional Associations
- Academy of Cognitive Therapy, founding fellow
- Academy of Cognitive Therapy, certified trainer/consultant
- Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy
- Anxiety Disorders Association
- California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
- Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder Association, professional member
- N.CA CBT Network- Steering Committee
- Obsessive Compulsive Foundation
- Tourette Syndrome Association
- Trichotillomania Learning Center
Mia Paley-Williams- Professional Profile
Mia Paley-Williams (pronouns she/her/hers) is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist working under Melinda White’s supervision.
Mia is warm, enthusiastic, intelligent, and compassionate. She works with children, teens, and adults and has taught positive parenting classes. Mia provides cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) treatment for OCD, ADHD, BFRB’s, panic disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, depression, tics, and autism spectrum disorder.
She is well-versed in the use of exposure and response prevention, which is the gold standard of evidence-based treatment for anxiety disorders. Mia is actively committed to providing LGBTQIA+ competent therapy and currently participates in a monthly gender focused consult group.
Mia is a well-rounded clinician who is an asset to my private practice. She is currently seeing clients via video-conferencing due to the COVID 19 pandemic.
I am very excited to have Mia as a lower fee resource available to the community from my office in Berkeley.
Referrals can be made by having clients call Melinda White at 510-526-8208