Bridging the outcomes gap
With over 100 years of collective experience in acute behavioral health settings, our founding therapists have repeatedly observed the disparity between ideal patient care and actual practice resulting in the detriment to patient outcomes, staff retention, and increase liability.
Our Mission
To provide dynamic solutions to mental health programs, so that the restorative nature of the creative arts and play cultivates stability within individuals and communities.
Our Vision
To elevate and stabilize individuals by recognizing the value of who they are and the gift they offer to society.
Meet our Leadership
Alison Salter, MA, LPCC
Taking Flight Network is the brain child of accomplished therapist and CEO of CARTSS, Alison Salter, MA, LPCC, BC-DMT, NCC. She has completed the Small Business Association’s Emerging Leaders MBA program; Founder’s First Business Bootcamp; and Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses program. She has received the Outstanding Achievement Award (2012) for her leadership in securing licensure for LPCCs in California and the Innovation Award (2022) from the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA). She served as Government Affairs Chair for the ADTA; on the Legislation Committee for CALPCC; and was invited to the White House’s Briefing on Arts in Healthcare (2017). Notably, six CARTSS’ therapists were nominated for the Celebration of Heroes for their exceptional service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lora Wilson, MA, BC-DMT
Lora Wilson (Research and Development) is a board-certified dance/movement therapist. She has been working in the field for the past 19 years. She is a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach on Nonverbal Communication and Dance as Healing. She is the continuing education manager for the American Dance Therapy Association and a presenter for several professional organizations on “Gene Expression and Neuroplasticity: Implications for Dance/Movement Therapy and Alzheimer’s Disease.” She has served as a board member for the American Dance Therapy Association and California Chapter of the ADTA. She is a program adviser for the Arts and Healing Initiative in partnership with UCLA Collaborative Center of Integrative Medicine. She produced ADTA Talks – Understanding Dance/Movement Therapy which includes 42 short videos highlighting the effectiveness of Dance/Movement Therapy across a range of populations.
For over 35 years, CARTSS, A Licensed Professional Clinical Counseling Corporation and developer of Taking Flight Network, Inc, has provided dynamic solutions for acute hospital and community mental health programs throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties.