Career Progression:
Dr. Chris Celio is a licensed psychologist, who started working in the mental health field in 2001 and originally trained to be a Child Psychologist, but found his calling when he joined the Hume Center as a Doctoral Intern in 2007. While this shifted his focus to serving adults diagnosed with serious mental illness, he brought with him an emphasis on the family and other systems that the consumer is a part of and a creative spirit that believes that healing and recovery can come through many surprising and outside-of-the-box pathways, beliefs, and persons.
Chris has helped Hume Center’s services in Contra Costa County expand into prevention and early intervention services, housing support, and full-service partnership services, which include case management, peer and family services, and homelessness prevention. He is currently working on a team at Hume Center developing behavioral health-informed independent housing.
Dr. Celio is excited about the impactful work being done by the Behavioral Health Consultation Training Center and is honored to be a part of it. Believing strongly in the power of the community, he has worked to create or support events like Mental Wellness Night with the Sharks, Community Living Room Conversations, and the annual Hope Cup Softball Tournament and Annual Bowling Tournament.
Notable Achievements / Areas of Interest:
Dr. Celio is proud to have been awarded the Hope Award by the SPIRIT Classes of 2017, 2018, and 2022, the Community Partnership Award in 2018 and the Unsung Hero Award in 2022 by the Putnam Clubhouse, and the Committed Clinician Award by NAMI Contra Costa in 2019. He was honored to be chosen by Contra Costa Behavioral Health to moderate their first “Bust Stigma”; event at Brenden Theatre for Recovery Month 2019, by Putnam Clubhouse to moderate their Reimagine Mental Health Care Conference in 2020 and 2021, and by TogetherWell to speak as a panelist during their “The Power of Support and Advocacy in Peer Mental Health”; in 2021.
License:
Clinical Psychology