{"id":18,"date":"2025-12-28T07:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T07:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:19:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:19:37","slug":"education-and-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Education and Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1975-80 University of Washington, simultaneous degrees in Music and Psychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"padding-top: 40px wp-block-paragraph\">1982-85 Western Washington University, Masters in Psychology, counseling with special stipend to work and do thesis about mental health services with American Indians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1984-91 Seattle Indian Health Board\u2014therapist, administrator\u2014worked with children,&nbsp; survivors of trauma and abuse (both physical and sexual), both children and adults, domestic violence, family issues related to substance use, depression, anxiety, family therapy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1991-93 Central Area Mental Health\/Therapeutic Health Services\u2014supervisor of children\u2019s program in an African American focused agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1991-2000 Seattle Mental Health\/Sound Mental Health\u2014worked with school based program, homeless youth and high risk youth programs as therapist and administrator, some opportunities working with adults and families<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1991-present Private Practice\u2014Current focus is with adults and couples. I treat anxiety, mood disorders, pre-marital, relationship, marital concerns and loss and grief.<br><br>Past experience includes children, families, and a number of adult mental health concerns. I am a certified Native American\/Alaskan Native and child specialist per WAC guidelines. In the past I have consulted with other professionals working with special therapeutic concerns. I worked with adult trauma survivors and families going through the process of divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SPECIALTIES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Native American\/ Alaskan Native counselor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington State certification as child specialist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I no longer work with children under 18 years directly.<br><br>Training in EMDR, EFT therapies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anderson, Linda M.S., Putnam, Julia, MSW, DCSW, Sinclair-Daisy,\u00a0Fransing, Ph.D. and Squetimkin-Anquoe, Annette, M.A.,(1999)\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">American-Indian and Alaskan-Native single parents. In C. L. Schmitz and S. Steiger Tebb Eds.), Diversity in single-parent families:\u00a0 working from strength (pp. 35-68).Families International, Inc. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robinson, Elizabeth A. &amp; Anderson, L. (1983).Family adjustment, parental attitudes, and social desirability.\u00a0 Journal of Abnormal\u00a0Child Psychology, 11(2), 247-256.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0405161427a2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0405161427a2.jpg 212w, https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0405161427a2-147x300.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1975-80 University of Washington, simultaneous degrees in Music and Psychology. 1982-85 Western Washington University, Masters in Psychology, counseling with special stipend to work and do thesis about mental health services with American Indians. 1984-91 Seattle Indian Health Board\u2014therapist, administrator\u2014worked with children,&nbsp; survivors of trauma and abuse (both physical and sexual), both children and adults, domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindalanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}