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ABOUT LINDA C. PAOLI,
LCSW
Linda Paoli has been a social worker since 1978
and has been seeing clients in her own private practice for 20 years.
Prior to that she worked as a Social Worker with the California
Youth Authority and as a contract therapist with a nonprofit agency dealing
with families in which child molestation had occurred. As a result of
this experience, she has developed a keen desire to short-circuit the legacy of
abuse and addiction and replace it with one of healthy connection to oneself and
others. She is committed to creating a healthier world: one person, one couple,
one family or one organization at a time.
Her primary focus is healing relationships - and because of that she has
developed specialties in couples’ counseling, sex and love addiction and/or sex
and love anorexia, codependency, chemical and process addictions, healthy
sexuality, and Inner Child issues.
She has had the great fortune to be trained by internationally known experts in
relationship counseling and sex addiction. These include, but are not limited to
Robert & Mary Goulding (Dr. & LCSW respectively),
Dr. Patrick Carnes and Dr. Harville Hendrix.
CERTIFICATIONS
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Licensed Clinical Social Worker #9184, 1981 |
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Certified Imago Relationship Therapist, 1993 |
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Certified Sex Addiction
Therapist, 2001 |
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Certified Sex Addiction Therapist Supervisor, 2007 |
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
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Redecision Therapy, 1983 to 1987 |
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Hypnosis, 1989 |
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Hot Monogamy, 1996 |
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EMDR Therapy, 2000 |
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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California Society for Clinical Social Work |
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Imago Relationships International |
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National Association of Social Workers |
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Society for the Advancement of Sexual
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International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals |
On a personal note, Linda is 61
(just a few years of life experience!), is married, has biological and stepchildren,
and is a grandmother.
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