Background:
To create a space for healing and growth that allows participants in the Hume Center community to value themselves for who they are and find purpose in their lives. I value inner peace and ongoing growth in understanding and awareness because every person can reduce suffering and find joy. I use my healing, teaching, and leadership abilities to support greater understanding of serious mental health symptoms in order to promote delivery of personalized behavioral health treatments and reduce stigma.
Career Progression:
Dr. Schiltz is the Director of Adult Clinical and Community Support Services.
Born and raised in the Los Angeles area until 2006, Margaret left her job as a Business Operations Manager for a national financial services firm and moved to the Bay Area, in 2008, for a mid-life career change to attend the Wright Institute in pursuit of a doctoral degree in clinical psychology.
Margaret trained at the Hume Center Concord office first as a practicum student in Contra Costa Outpatient and then as a Pre-Doctoral Intern and Post Doctoral Fellow in both the Contra Costa Outpatient Program (CCOP) and the Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP) with additional practicum training in a substance use recovery program in Berkeley and at Kaiser Permanente Richmond.
During her doctoral training, Margaret developed an interest and expertise in working with psychosis and participants with serious, chronic behavioral health conditions. After completing her postdoc, Margaret worked briefly in the Community Support Program – East in Pittsburg. In February 2016 she became a Program Coordinator for the newly contracted Community Integrated Outpatient Services (CIOS) program in the new Richmond clinic, where she assisted
management members in starting up the new clinic. In July 2016 she became
Program Manager for the CIOS outpatient program in Richmond. Margaret
assisted with the transfer of 70 clients from Rubicon, the former provider, to the new Hume contract. In 2018 she took a Clinical Lead role and helped initiate the 2018-2019 Contra Costa Outpatient Program training year start, supervised 3 CCOP trainees and created and presented the new Trainee Cohort Didactic program for trainees in the adult services track while continuing to manage the CIOS program at the Richmond clinic.
June 2019 following the departure of the CSP-West manager, Margaret was promoted to Richmond Clinic Manager which includes
clinical supervision and management for both the CSP-West Full Service
Partnership program and the CIOS Outpatient program. 2021- 2023 was on the
Contra Costa County Council for Homelessness as the Behavioral Health Chair.
Notable Achievements / Areas of Interest:
Treatment of Schizophrenia
Meditation
Travel
Affiliations:
California Psychological Association (CPA)
Education:
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Santa Clara University
Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from the American School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University San Francisco Bay Area
Licenses:
Clinical Psychologist (2019)