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Current Specialties - ACT Coaching, Stress & Trauma Prevention
& Release, Pre-marital Education/Coaching, Marriage Enrichment
Prior
Experience And Training
Credentials
Current
Specialties - ACT Coaching, Stress & Trauma Prevention
& Release, Pre-marital Education/Coaching, Marriage Enrichment
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).
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