Carrie A. Miles, Ph.D.
Linda Ikeda has been a licensed marriage, family and child therapist since 1993. She has been in the Bay Area since 1978 and was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from the University of Washington in 1972 and worked as a pediatric and newborn intensive care nurse in a variety of hospital settings for fifteen years. She keeps her RN license active and up to date. Linda earned her master’s degree in counseling from the University of San Francisco in 1989. She also has studied at Fuller Theological Seminary, Regent’s University and Princeton Seminary. She has received specialty training in EMDR. Other areas of specialty training received are: play therapy, sand tray therapy, working with survivors of sexual abuse, dealing with issues of domestic violence, and narrative approaches to therapy. Linda has led women's’, adolescents’, staff and children’s groups. She has conducted workshops for church retreats, parenting groups, counseling interns and trainees, and multi-cultural community centers on a variety of topics, some of which are : self-esteem, parenting of adolescents, parenting of special needs children, attachment disorder, adolescent psychopathology and integrating faith with psychology. Though she works with a variety of cases, she is especially fond of working with children, adolescents and adult survivors of childhood trauma. In addition to her clinical work, Linda has been involved in a teaching, training and therapy ministry with the Chi Rho Corporation which offers assistance to the House of New Life, an orphanage for HIV+ children, in Constanta, Romania; in Nepal; and with Empower International in Uganda. Linda's program for caregivers of abused, neglected and abandoned children, Created to Belong, is in great demand both in African and the United States. Linda's Christian faith informs all that she is and all that she does. She and her husband have been married over 28 years and have two grown sons. She taught in Uganda in 2007 and 2008.
Linda M. Ikeda, M.A., LMFC
