PSYCHOTHERAPY
Transformational Psychotherapy
Individual Psychotherapy
Couple Psychotherapy
Group Psychotherapy
Linda’s Clinical Background
Transformational Psychotherapy
Therapy is an inner journey, guided in a supportive relationship by a skillful, empathic therapist, through processes of:
Attachment-Connection
Acceptance-Compassion
Awareness-Consciousness
Awakening-Consciousness of Essence
Alignment-Centering
Activating-Choosing
Authenticity-Creative Expression
Therapy evokes the shifts in perspectives and changes in patterns of response necessary
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to fully realize one’s inherent potential |
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to wholeheartedly emerge a vital, resilient, authentic sense of self |
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to skillfully relate to others, passionately and compassionately. |
Individual Psychotherapy
Individual therapy is an inner journey of self-exploration, self-acceptance, self-awareness, and self-expression, co-created, witnessed and celebrated by a True Other to one’s True Self.
As a warm, interactive psychotherapist, I provide the experiences, guidance and skills that:
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facilitate self discovery, shift dysfunctional patterns, and promote growth in the direction of fulfillment and well-being |
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attune to the inner reality of the client, get to the heart
of deep pain and suffering quickly; find paths of resolution
steadily |
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resolve trauma, manage stress and afflictive emotions, foster trust, well-being and self esteem |
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discover new understandings, possibilities, choices about self |
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create resources: inner resilience, relational support, better coping skills, more options |
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develop and integrate the inner capacities and processes that allow for the emergence of a healthy, balanced, authentic True Self. |
Couple Psychotherapy
Couple therapy is a process of developing relational-emotional
intelligence, of creating trust, connection, and happiness in intimate relationships.
As a knowledgeable, experienced couples therapist, I help couples:
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regain an emotionally secure, inter-dependent attachment |
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learn conscious communication skills and empathic, relational strategies |
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reduce defensiveness, stop hostility, heal trauma, repair trust |
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transform relational dynamics into skillful, loving connections, creating emotional empathy and genuine intimacy |
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solve problems, resolve differences, make decisions and commitments, achieve goals |
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clear up “old baggage” from families of origin and previous relationships; resolve impasses with children and extended family |
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develop resources within each person and within the relationship |
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experience the
deep joy of a loving, committed relationship. |
Individual and couples therapy sessions available by appointment in San Francisco and Corte Madera, CA. Complimentary initial phone consultation.
Contact Linda at 415-665-7765 or lindagraham2@earthlink.net with your questions and concerns.
Group Psychotherapy
Group therapy is a powerful yet safe venue of interactive exploration that promotes members’ self awareness, inner growth, self-esteem, and authenticity
in relationships. Call 415-665-7765 or e-mail lindagraham@earthlink.net for openings in ongoing long-term groups, Deepening Relationships and Women and Transitions.
Linda’s Clinical Background
As a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT #32372), I am licensed by the state of California to provide psychological services to individuals,
couples, families and groups, and certified by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to supervise MFT interns. Related sites:
www.CAMFT.org www.SFCAMFT.org www.MarinCAMFT.org
I have specialized in relationship counseling for more than 15 years, helping clients become more present and aware in all forms of relationships, learning to listen to the emotional truth of others while gaining greater authenticity in expressing their own, creating the conscious and empathic relating that supports genuine understanding, connection, joy and love.
My master’s degree in clinical psychology from John F. Kennedy University gave me a solid foundation in psychodynamic psychotherapy for treating the traumas and dysfunctions that block us from our full aliveness and wholeness, keeping us stuck in the muck of fear, depression, anxiety, shame, confusion, overwhelm, loneliness, despair.
In the almost two decades of clinical practice and extensive training in meditation, attachment theory and neuroscience since then, I have become a skillful guide in the journey from muck to light, helping clients transform their experience of self from miserable anguish and suffering through radical self acceptance, wise discernment and courageous alignment with their own true nature, to genuine radiant joy, moment-to-moment, lasting a lifetime. www.vipassanatherapists.org.
As an experienced clinician, my clinical work now integrates techniques from the most effective cutting edge psychotherapies and accessible practices of coaching, meditation, and yoga, drawing on years of study with:
Diana Fosha, PhD, founder of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, www.aedpinstitute.com.
Susan Johnson, PhD, founder of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, www.eft.ca.
Daniel Siegel, M.D., formulator of interpersonal neurobiology, www.drdansiegel.com.
Marcia Linehan, PhD, founder of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, www.behavioraltech.com.
Francine Shapiro, PhD, founder, and Laurel Parnell, PhD, senior trainer, of EMDR (trauma therapy) www.EMDRIA.org.
Richard Schwartz, PhD, founder of Internal Family Systems, www.selfleadership.org.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, www.umassmed.edu/cfm.
James Baraz, M.A., co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and international dharma teacher, www.spiritrock.org.
Sylvia Boorstein, PhD, founding teacher, Spirit Rock Meditation Center and international dharma teacher, www.spiritrock.org.
Tara Brach, PhD, founder of Insight Meditation Center, Washington, DC. www.imcw.org.
Barbara Voinar, international teacher of Iyengar yoga, www.4thstreetyoga.com
Coaches Training Institute, www.thecoaches.com.
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Linda Graham, MFT
1637 Irving Street,
San Francisco, CA 94122
21 Tamal Vista, #224
Corte Madera, CA 94925
lindagraham2@earthlink.net
www.lindagraham-mft.com
415-665-7765 |
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