The loss of Caitlin MacCalla, M.A., LMFT, a devoted trauma-informed therapist whose work impacted innumerable lives over more than two decades, is being mourned by the San Jose community and mental health community.
Tides of Healing's creator, Caitlin, has been a registered Marriage and Family Therapist in California for 17 years (CA License #47854). She has spent more than 20 years helping people, families, and communities in clinical and social service settings.
Her death left a lasting hole in the hearts of many who knew her both personally and professionally, as well as in the mental health community. Caitlin's love for guiding people through difficult emotional and interpersonal situations set her career apart.
Her areas of expertise included dealing with children, adolescents, blended families, bi-cultural and racial couples and families, co-parenting counseling, and divorce after receiving formal training as a narrative therapist.
She supported a strength-based approach, working with her clients to co-create narratives that enabled them to develop long-lasting mental and emotional well-being. Her areas of competence included forensic psychology, female empowerment, preventing domestic violence, trauma, loss, and mood disorders, adolescent mental health, and family systems work.
Caitlin acknowledged the significant influence of social structures, oppression, and cultural elements on mental health and adopted a comprehensive, trauma-informed, and highly intersectional approach.
Caitlin has worked in a range of settings throughout her career, including executive function coaching, family and dependency court, group therapy, sex offender treatment, K–12 school counseling, and supervising treatment teams in charity organizations.
Additionally, she assisted families dealing with blended family dynamics and co-parenting, adolescents in foster care, and neurodivergent individuals. Cultural humility, anti-racism, and a dedication to creating secure, encouraging therapeutic environments for all clients served as the foundation for Caitlin's work.
She served as a mentor and role model for colleagues in the mental health area because of her commitment to advocacy, professional quality, and client empowerment. In addition to her career accomplishments, Caitlin was a loving mother who valued her family above all else.
She loved to cook, bake, read, and organize special trips with her son, and she cherished their time together. She is remembered by friends and family as kind, compassionate, and loving, constantly working to make a difference in her life and career.
She exuded wisdom, kindness, and a steadfast dedication to helping others on their path to recovery. Everyone Caitlin touched, including her clients, coworkers, friends, and family, is deeply saddened by her demise.
But because of the lives she changed, the stories she helped rewrite, and the enduring contributions she made to mental health, trauma-informed care, and advocacy for underrepresented groups, her legacy lives on.
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