Linda Berlingen

Linda is a Licensed Professional Counselor who is an Existentialist and a Rogerian, with a down-to-earth approach.  As an Existentialist, she believes that people are at greatest ease when they feel a sense of meaningfulness in their life experiences. Everything that happens to us, shadowy or light-filled, holds valuable lessons for growth and makes us all that we are, and all that we have the potential to be.

As a Rogerian, her therapeutic style is to provide safety and unconditional positive regard to those with whom she is working. Rogerian therapists typically believe that through modeling unconditional positive regard to you, you may catch on to the idea and begin to similarly value yourself. The end result is increased self-esteem and efficacy in the world.

Linda has been counseling people in the Portland area for over a decade and has extensive training and experience in her field.  She is specially trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.  These modalities contain practical tools that will help you to recognize unhelpful thought patterns that often have people repeating the same life circumstances over and over.
The more we can look at and recognize our contribution to our circumstances, the more likely our circumstances are to improve.