Hi. I am Linda Girdner and Positive Energy Solutions is the name of my private practice. I am a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist in Maryland, a Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and a Graduate of the Vanguard Class in Authentic Happiness Coaching (Positive Psychology). I also have post-graduate training in a number of areas, including Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Treating Combat Vets.
I spent about twenty years in the conflict resolution field before becoming a therapist. As a divorce mediator, trainer and researcher, I saw too many marriages end that might have had a chance if the couples had gotten help earlier, and too many children entangled and hurt by ongoing parental conflicts.
I already had a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The American University before I returned to graduate school to earn a Masters of Science Degree from the Clinical Program in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Maryland at College Park. My interest in holistic approaches also led me to become a Karuna and Usui Reiki Master. My unique background is invaluable in my work in helping individuals, couples, and families deal with the stresses of a rapidly moving and changing culture, and in finding ways to balance mind, body, and spirit, self and other, and home and work.
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As a therapist, I have experience working with seriously mentally ill clients in community mental health, with grieving family members in individual and group therapy with my local hospice, and with people having psychiatric crises as an urgent care therapist with the county’s crisis response system.
Clients most often come to me in my private practice, because they are having difficulty with depression, anxiety, trauma, grief and loss, chronic pain or illness, troubled relationships, or major life transitions. I am pro-active and often can engage clients in trying new pathways that can lead to changing dysfunctional habits of thought, feeling and behavior, can facilitate healing of old and current emotional wounds, and improve the quality of their lives and relationships.
I find it useful to see thoughts, feelings, and actions as forms of energy. A client may become aware that certain negative thoughts lead to a depressed mood, being around a toxic person drains one’s energy, or not being able to reach a loved one triggers unsettling anxiety. In therapy, clients can learn how to recognize their reactions to others and situations and find a place within where they can tap more positive and peaceful energy.
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