Research Interests

integrative healing and traditional medicine, relational health, integrated behavioral health, empathic communication, trauma sensitive mindfulness & resilience, somatic practices, human centered design, qualitative methods, women’s health.

Biography

Dr. Saleena Gupte is an integrated care consultant and integrative well-being healer, coach, facilitator, and practitioner. She partners with organizations on strategies to advance systems for mental and emotional healing centered in empathy, relational health, trauma and resilience, mindfulness, somatic practices, and inclusive strengths-based approaches. Dr. Saleena holds deep joy in facilitating conversations, coaching, mentoring, and training among cross-disciplinary professionals on human centered communication and presence skills.

Dr. Saleena prioritizes partnerships with community health centers serving underserved and marginalized populations in integrating creative models on whole-person practices. She is the creator of the Care Community Leadership Academy (CCLA)©, a cohort-based training model for direct service professionals and leaders on relational and therapeutic counseling and coaching skills, with a focus on wellbeing practices for burnout prevention and personal resilience. The academy has been adopted by federally qualified health centers, hospital systems, health plans, and public health organizations in California.

In her clinical role, Dr. Gupte serves alongside primary care and behavioral health teams, as an integrative medicine homeopath, holistic behavioral wellbeing coach, and offers traditional-wisdom options for underserved communities through individual and group formats at LifeLong Medical Care, a federally qualified health center in the East Bay, and in private practice.

Dr. Saleena’s background includes a Doctorate in Public Health on systems change for empathic communication, National Board Certification as a Community-Based Integrative Medicine Homeopath and Holistic Health Practitioner, National Board Certification in Holistic Well-being and Leadership Coaching, Trauma Informed Yoga Certification, and Ayurveda Coaching. Throughout her career, she has been embedded in health equity, social determinants of health, cross-cultural health care, qualitative research, and women’s health. She previously worked for The Alameda Health Consortium, the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative, Kaiser Permanente, the Public Health Institute, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Education

University of California, Berkeley DrPH, Public Health

The George Washington University MPH, Public Health, Maternal and Child Health & Health Behavior

The Pennsylvania State University B.S., Life Science

Courses

Wellness Entrepreneurship

Publications

Community Health Center Network: Trauma Informed Roadmap 2023.

California Primary Care Association (CPCA) 2021: Care Management Learning Community: Leveraging Care Manager Expertise to Improve Whole Person Care.

California Primary Care Association (CPCA): Complementary Therapies to Support Patient Wellness at Community Health Centers; May 2019.

Integrated Behavioral Health Manual: Everything You Need to Know Start, Grow, or Enhance Behavioral Health in Primary Care; 1st Edition 2016; 2nd Edition 2018.

Improving Care Coordination between Primary Care and Behavioral Health through Direct Secure Messaging, The Office for the National Coordination of Health Information Technology.

Health Equity and Community Engagement Report: Best Practices, Challenges and Recommendations for Local Health Departments, Bay Area Regional Summary, 2013.

A Successful Partnership to Help Reduce Health Disparities: The Institute for Culturally Competent Care and the Kaiser Permanente School of Anesthesia (2007). American Academy of Nurse Anesthesia.

Provider Needs Assessment: Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Culturally Competent Care. (2006). Permanente Journal.

Culturally Competent Care: Breastfeeding and Cultural Beliefs American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Spring 2004, Colorado Department of Public Health, 2004.

Breastfeeding and Cultural Beliefs, Women’s Health Center of Excellence, Kaiser Permanente.

Kaiser Permanente Culturally Competent Care Toolkit, 2003.

Short-term Evaluation Results for the Kit for New Parents, Center for Community Wellness, 2003.

Long-term Evaluation Results for the Kit for New Parents, Center for Community Wellness, 2003.

Distracted by Drama: How California Newspapers Portray Intimate Partner Violence, Issue 13, Berkeley Media Studies Group, 2003.

A Model for the Nation’s Health Care Industry: Kaiser Permanente’s Institute for Culturally Competent Care. (2002). Permanente Journal, 6(3): 47-50.