✔ Our evidence-based system has been globally trialed and is proven to work across all settings (including low/middle-income).
✔ We have proven we can train providers/ paraprofessionals to effectively treat patients in up to 78% less time than traditional care.
✔ Our treatment support software solution (CareConfidence) streamlines care and solves mental health workforce challenges.
Welcome to CETA Global.
We are researchers, scientists, and practitioners dedicated to giving the world an evidence-based, cost-effective mental health treatment system that works.
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Twenty years in the making, thousands of hours of research and development.
After almost 20 years of studying and implementing behavioral and mental health programs in low-and middle-income countries, our team realized that bringing existing single-focused approaches to scale would be time-intensive, costly, and unsustainable. With the mission to provide access to evidence-based care for all individuals worldwide, we embarked on developing a multi-problem approach, the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA). Based on existing evidence, trends in practice, interviews, and a lot of customer exploration, CETA incorporates the principles we found critical to scalability, including:
✔ Addressing multiple problems with one approach in a short time frame.
✔ A shorter manual – not a book – to allow for easy translation and comprehension.
✔ Direct guidance, without scientific or professional jargon, for ease of comprehension and application by both professional and lay providers.
✔ Versatility to address problems across the lifespan and all levels of need.
✔ Flexibility in delivery method (e.g., in person or via phone, individual or group, etc.).
✔ Training to competency for providers to become CETACertified™ to achieve optimal behavioral and mental health outcomes.
✔ Cost-effective training and services.
✔ Intelligent software designed to save providers time and solve workforce challenges.
Three ways we’re bringing evidence-based care to the world.
Workforce Solution:
CareConfidence Software
Streamline care and solve workforce challenges with our groundbreaking software and workforce training system. Easily administer the highest quality, cost-effective, transdiagnostic, evidence-based care.
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Research & Trials
We’re practitioners and scientists who believe in rigorous measurement-based care. Learn more about our research and our eight clinical trials by clicking below.
International NGO
& Development Work
From Namibia to Myanmar, Moldova to Ukraine, Colombia, Iraq and more. We’ve proven that our treatment approach is impactful and scaleable in all settings.
Meet our Lead Clinical Team
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Dr. Laura Murray, Ph.D.
FOUNDER & CEO - CETA Global
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Stephanie Skavenski, MPH, MSW
CLINICAL DIRECTOR - CETA Global
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Kristie Metz, Ph.D.
GLOBAL MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTANT
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Caleb Figge
CLINICAL LEAD - CETA Global
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Michelle Alto
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW - CETA Global
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Srishti (Meera) Sardana, PhD, MSc
Global Mental Health Research Fellow - Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
One Family’s Story of Change
See the impact that CETA Global’s transdiagnostic system of care can have.
CETA Global in the Press
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Covid-19 Urges Attention to Health Equity
Like many innovative approaches to difficult problems, simply looking at the problem a bit differently can suggest potential solutions often with an underlying paradigm shift. For Dr Karnik, this came from considering the success of an approach used to addressing multiple behavioral and mental health problems in other countries around the world, particularly in highly volatile situations such as in war zones…
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Peace of Mind: Protecting Mental Health in the Ukraine
In 2010, Murray and Stephanie Skavenski, MPH, MSW, a senior research associate in Mental Health, partnered with Shannon Dorsey, PhD, MS, a psychology and global health researcher at the University of Washington, to create the Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA). The new model was specifically designed to deliver quality mental health care in low-resource and conflict-ridden areas…
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Changing Your Brain Chemistry with Dr. Laura Murray
Did you know that in countries like Zambia, people with a 4th and 5th grade education are being taught to successfully administer mental health treatment to local populations? What can we learn from that effort to improve access and cost to much needed mental health care services in the United States? We discuss all of this, and how these learnings can be applied to help us manage our mental health during physical distancing…
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How to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
As public health faculty at Johns Hopkins, we have been monitoring not only the map and progress on vaccines, but the impact COVID-19 has on the human condition. This is where I come in as a psychologist. In my work around the globe, I’ve had the opportunity lately to speak to and observe a wide range of leaders facing a range of challenges: Those running businesses and organizations, who are trying to save jobs and pivot creatively. Leaders in academia, now working through new processes…