OBH is committed to enhancing the quality of life for individuals and the community by providing comprehensive, individualized behavioral health services while advocating and encouraging collaboration among families and professionals.
At OBH, you can expect to be treated as an individual regardless of race, gender, disability, ethnicity, culture or spiritual orientation. We value and respect your opinion and seek to work with you in a unique way to foster growth, achievement, and progression in a variety of functional arenas.
At OBH, we care for and are aware of the many needs our clients and families have. The treatments we employ are guided by empirical research and take into account the multitude of other professional disciplines that can assist you in achieving your potential. We strive to work in a collaborative relationship with community resources to help you achieve your goals.
Each treatment plan is tailored to meet the specific and unique needs of the individual client. Each client’s progress in therapy is monitored and accommodations are made when the need arises. Changes are always made in conjunction with the family or individual client and advantages and disadvantages of alterations in programming are discussed before implemented.
At OBH, dysfunction or pathology is rarely viewed in isolation; rather, the interpersonal environment in which an individual resides is often critically important to establishing and maintaining positive treatment effects. Treatment techniques provided by OBH always attempt to foster and facilitate such involvement to achieve optimum, long lasting results.
Optimum Behavioral Health’s founder and owner, Gregory J. Carinci, PSY.D., BCBA-D is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and Board-Certified Behavior Analyst providing a variety of services throughout San Diego County. Dr. Carinci has been working in the mental and behavioral health field since 1997, while pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Special Education at Marist College in New York. He has since earned a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and a Doctorate in Clinical Child Psychology. Dr. Carinci completed an APA (American Psychological Association)-approved predoctoral internship at the Dutchess County Department of Mental Health and a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Autism Research, Evaluation and Service.
Dr. Carinci completed advanced training at the University of San Diego and is certified in special education advocacy. He has been dually appointed as Adjunct Faculty Professor at National University and has taught courses in both the School and Counseling Psychology Program as well as the Department of Behavior Analysis. He serves as a consultant to one of the largest residential treatment organizations in San Diego as the Director of Child and Adolescent Behavior Management. His professional training and experience are recognized nationally, and he is listed in the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology.
Dr. Carinci’s dissertation research focused on examining the factors that lead to increased parental participation and involvement in their child’s early intervention programming with a focus on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Through this doctoral research, Dr. Carinci has obtained a unique perspective on family dynamics as it relates to Autism and to effective, comprehensive treatment. Dr. Carinci has had a variety of internship and work experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings treating children and adults with a wide range of developmental, behavioral, and psychological issues.
Dr. Carinci’s experiences also include individual and group psychotherapy with typically developing children, educational assessments, training teachers and school staff about ASD and behavior modification techniques, and parent training. His current interests include comprehensive diagnostic evaluation of emotional and behavioral disorders, early intervention programming as well as residential and inpatient management of severe behavior disorders.
Optimum Behavioral Health is affiliated with and currently accepts reimbursement from:
If you don’t have any insurances listed above, don’t worry, we also work with several select specialists. Our office staff will work with you to contact your insurance or specialist and obtain the authorizations needed for treatment.
