ABOUT LINDA
Current Activities
Linda works in Melbourne at Art of Living Psychology in the Camberwell end of Surrey Hills close to Burwood and Canterbury (near the tramstop on the corner of Riversdale Road and Through Road) and just a 5 minute drive from Box Hill, Balwyn, Hawthorn, Kew, Ashburton, Glen Iris and Malvern. She provides life coaching, career and business coaching, counselling, emotional intelligence training, stress management training, individual/couple/family therapy and professional training and supervision for psychologists, social workers, hypnotherapists, Gestalt therapists, counsellors, life coaches and career/executive coaches. However her focus these days is on life/career/business coaching, couple and relationship coaching/counselling and sexual problems. Because of a strong interest, one of her current projects is the development of a pre-relationship/pre-marital education training.
Prior Experience and Training
Linda's training and experience includes: humanistic Rogerian person-centred counselling since 1976, crisis and trauma work (including addictions, co-dependency, and spiritual emergency), life coaching and coaching psychology, emotional intelligence training, group leadership, relationship and couple therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), clinical hypnotherapy, meditation and mindfulness-based CBT (MBCBT), narrative therapy, vibrational medicine, acceptance and commitment therapy/training (ACT) and somatic approaches such as Gestalt therapy, psychodrama, and somatic experiencing and Holotropic breathwork especially its focused bodywork.
She has co-ordinated, prepared and lectured a subject in a counselling degree course at Australian Catholic University and has published articles on significant therapeutic change, effective helping, training of effective helpers and somatic hypnotherapy in professional journals and popular magazines. Her research at Monash University has included investigating significant therapeutic change and effective helping. The latter projject involved interviewing internationally-selected 'exceptional helpers' to find out how helping happens and how professional helpers could become more effective. She held an honorary research associate position in counselling psychology in the Institute of Human Development and Counselling at Monash University for eight years.
Credentials
Linda Edwards B.Sc.(Hons), Grad.Dip.Couns.Psych., M.Sc., Ph.D. is a registered psychologist with a doctorate in psychology from Monash University. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), the APS College of Counselling Psychologists, the APS Coaching Psychology Interest Group, the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists and the APS Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group. She was a long-term member of the Imago Relationship Therapists Support Group, and is a Certified Holotropic Breathwork Practitioner as a result of having completed four years transpersonal psychology training with the Grof Institute, USA. She is a registered provider with Medicare and most Health Funds, and is also certified to provide sexual training to couples. She is an internationally published author.
Copyright Dr Linda Edwards 2001-2010, Art of Living Psychology (Consulting Rooms are in Melbourne in the Camberwell, Surrey Hills, Burwood and Canterbury region, also serving Ashburton, Balwyn, Box Hill, Glen Iris, Hawthorn, Kew and Malvern).
