Martin
D. Meltzer, M.A., is a Licensed
Professional Counselor in the state of Colorado (License #69), is a National
Certified Counselor (Certificate #21864), a trained mediator, and holds a
college level Colorado Vocational Teaching Certificate. Mr. Meltzer received his M.A. degree in
Counseling Psychology from the University of Denver in 1985 and his B.B.A.
degree in Accounting and Electronic Data Processing from Pace University in
1970. Mr. Meltzer has been in private
practice since receiving his graduate degree.
Besides private practice, which includes outpatient and inpatient
settings, additional work experience includes a local resource center providing
outpatient mental health counseling services, a university counseling center,
homeless and battered women shelters, an AID’s clinic, a residential child-care
facility, and various public school settings.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) services were added to Mr.
Meltzer’s practice in 1993. Mr. Meltzer
has been an adjunct faculty member in the Applied Communications and ADR
Programs, University College, University of Denver, was an adjunct Clinical
Professor at the College of Law, University of Denver and has been an Associate
for CDR Associates, among others. Prior
to receiving his graduate degree, Mr. Meltzer held various corporate senior
level management positions specializing in the areas of domestic and
international finance, accounting, tax, and law. Mr. Meltzer was a Senior Accountant for a
“Big Four” accounting firm and has taught accounting on the college level.
In the areas of clinical psychotherapy and counseling, Mr. Meltzer conducts brief and long-term individual, family,
couple, and group psychotherapy through private, insurance, managed care and
EAP settings. His philosophical
perspective is Existential / Humanistic, while his theoretical and methodological
perspectives are Cognitive-Behavioral / Systems / Psychodynamic. Specializations include active suicidal
ideation; addictions and the addictive process, survivors of childhood and adult trauma, abuse and violence; domestic violence; anxiety and mood disorders; and issues relating to families, relationships,
and parenting. Client populations include female and male adults and seniors.
In the field
of ADR areas of specializations include domestic (divorce, separation, parental
responsibilities, child support, parenting, property, financial, tax, business,
and post divorce issues), business and commercial (financial, tax, legal,
accounting, contracts, agreements, and employer/employee issues), and civil
(criminal misdemeanor, neighborhood and community, landlord / tenant issues)
matters. Mr. Meltzer’s philosophical
perspective towards dispute resolution is Transformative, while his theoretical
and methodological perspectives are Facilitative. Mr. Meltzer has taught, lectured, and
written in the areas of communication, negotiation, conflict, and issues of
high conflict and violence, in addition to philosophies, orientations and
models of mediation.
Mr. Meltzer
has written articles and has presented on legal, ethical, licensure,
legislative, business, health care reform, domestic violence and homelessness
issues in psychotherapy, and violence issues in mediation. Mr. Meltzer, through
a Governor’s appointment, sat, for seven years, on the Colorado State Grievance
Board (Board) as an Augmented Panel member for Licensed Professional
Counselors, and Chaired the Board’s Practice & Therapy Monitoring
Committee. Mr. Meltzer is Past President
of the Colorado Mental Health Counselors Association (CMHCA), is Past Chair of
the Colorado Counseling Association’s Licensure Committee (CCA), is Past Chair
of the Public Policy & Legislative Committee for CMHCA, served on the
Ethics Committee for CCA, and is a past Board member of the Colorado Council of
Mediators & Mediation Organizations. From 1989 to 1998 he was actively
involved with the Mental Health Association of Colorado’s (MHAC) Pro-Bono
Mental Health Project as a Pro-Bono Advisory Board member, as well as providing
direct pro-bono services. Mr. Meltzer is a past member of the Association for Conflict Resolution (Advanced Practitioner
member), and the Colorado Council of Mediators & Mediation Organizations
(Divorce & Child Custody Professional Mediator and Civil & Community
Professional Mediator member).