ABOUT LINDA
Current Activities
Linda is currently working in full-time private practice at Art of Living Psychology in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell walking distance from Canterbury, Surrey Hills, and Burwood (and just a 5 minute drive from Box Hill, Balwyn, Hawthorn, Kew, Ashburton, Glen Iris and Malvern). She provides life coaching, career mentoring, 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 emotional intelligence mentors. However her focus these days is on couple counselling and sexual problems. She also holds an honorary research associate position in counselling psychology in the Institute of Human Development and Counselling at Monash University.
Prior Experience and Training
Born in 1945, Linda's training and experience includes: counselling since 1976, crisis and trauma work (including addictions, co-dependency, and spiritual emergency), life coaching, emotional intelligence training, group leadership, relationship and family therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, clinical hypnotherapy, contemplative psychotherapy, narrative therapy, vibrational medicine, somatic approaches such as Gestalt therapy, psychodrama, and Holotropic breath/bodywork.
More recently, she co-ordinated, prepared and lectured a subject in a counselling degree course at Australian Catholic University and has published articles on effective helping and the training of effective helpers in professional journals and popular magazines. Her research at Monash University involved interviewing internationally-selected 'exceptional helpers' to find out how helping happens and how professional helpers could become more effective.
Credentials
Linda Edwards B.Sc., Grad.Dip.Couns.Psych., M.Sc., Ph.D. is a registered psychologist with a doctorate in psychology from Monash Univeristy. She is a member of the Australian Psychological Society, the College of Counselling Psychologists, the Division of Independently Practising Psychologists, the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists, the Imago Relationship Therapists Support Group and the APS Transpersonal Psychology Interest Group and is a Certified Holotropic Breathwork Practitioner as a result of having completed the two year training with the Grof Institute, USA. She is a registered provider with the major Health Funds in Victoria and is also certified to provide sexual training to couples. She is an internationally published author and lecturer and has carried out six years research into significant change and effective helping at Monash University.
Copyright Dr Linda Edwards 2001-2006, 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).
