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Caroline Fraissinet, Ed.D.

Workshops, panels, and conversations on career navigation and workplace mental health. Direct, warm, and grounded in doctoral research and lived experience.

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Workshop · July 2026

Changing Currents: Career Transitions and Gaps

From Caroline's Career Navigation for People With Mood Disorders series with DBSA California. This session takes on résumé gaps and career pivots directly: how to talk about time away, how to read a change of direction as self-knowledge rather than failure, and how to plan a next move that fits the life you actually have.

Virtual · 1 hr 10 min
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Interview · January 2026 · 22 min

Bipolar Work Lab with Hidetoshi Matsuura

Hidetoshi Matsuura interviews Caroline about living and working with cyclothymia, a mood disorder that gets talked about far less often, and about how work culture and decisions around disclosure differ between America and Japan. Held in Japanese and English with a translator.

Moderator · October 2025 · 1 hr

USC Careers in Mental Health: Career Paths

Caroline interviewed professors and practitioners holding different mental health graduate degrees — MFT, Ph.D., LCSW — so students could hear how the degrees actually differ, how each panelist found their way into the field, and what the day-to-day work really looks like.

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Improving Your Workplace Mental Health

Caroline on what support at work looks like in practice, and why sustainable careers start with self-knowledge rather than fitting yourself to an organization's expectations.

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About Caroline

Why she does this work

Caroline holds an Ed.D. in Organizational Change and Leadership from USC and spent eight years in university career services before founding Career Wavelength. She also lives with a mood disorder, which is why the advice she gives accounts for how people actually function rather than how they're supposed to.

She hosts DBSA California's Third Thursday Speaker Series, featuring guests including Gabe Howard and General Gregg Martin, and facilitates live audience Q&A (unrecorded, to protect participant privacy).

In her own words: Caroline's story, from DBSA California's We've Been There member series.

What she speaks on

  • Career navigation and sustainable work practices
  • Workplace mental health and disclosure decisions
  • Building a career around a neurodivergent or mood-disordered brain
  • Job search strategy for people managing a mental health condition
  • Work-life integration that accounts for how people actually function
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