Linda Hammond, RDT, REAT, MFT MFC#29058  

2711 Alcatraz Avenue                              1726 Fillmore Street
               Berkeley CA  94705-2726                             San Francisco CA 94115-3130

(415) 922-5349 (for both offices)


Linda Hammond RDT REAT MFT is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) and Registered Expressive Arts Therapist (REAT) with private practice offices in  San Francisco and Oakland/Berkeley since 1989.  She received her Masters in Counseling Psychology form the California Institue of Integral Studies. She has worked as an addiction therapist at Haight Ashbury Detox and Rehabilitation and a child therapist for the children of recovering addicts at the Women’s Alcoholism Center.  Linda was the executive director/clinical director for eight years at the Circle Counseling Center in San Francisco, which provided treatment for children from families affected by substance abuse and HIV disease.

She has been involved with the process of guiding children through difficult life transitions and disturbing internal emotional conditions for over 30 years using Playtherapy, Sandplay Therapy and Drama/Movement Therapy. Her work includes a deep understanding of the issues for both women and men involved in recovering from substances and sex addiciton, while developing and focusing on treatment specifically for women. She has also developed treatment using expressive arts and body-oriented psychotherapy.

In her private practice Linda is interactive and engaged and works with dreams with clients. Her practice focuses on women's psycology, children and expressive arts, transpersonal psychology. She has extensive experience with trauma, depression, anxiety disorders, PTSD, early childhood issues, including childhood bipolar disease.

In addition to her private practice Linda currently supervises interns at the Child Therapy Institute of Marin, a training and treatment center for children using sandplay and playtherapy and is Adjunct Faculty member at California Institute of Integral Studies, where she supervises interns and teaches in the Expressive Arts Masters Program.


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