Meet Linda
Twin Cities Life Coach Linda Fliss, M.A. (Owner and Life Coach)
Linda Fliss is the owner of Twin Cities Life Coaching. She has over 10 years of experience guiding and helping others.
Linda is a former relationship and trauma therapist and understands the difference between therapy and coaching. Her background gives her a unique perspective. She knows how to help clients achieve their goals.
Linda is a passionate advocate for self-care and recognizes its importance in maintaining health, happiness, and peace. Linda is passionate about Empowerment Coaching for Women in Midlife, helping them achieve their best selves.
She is also an expert in building healthy relationship skills. Linda helps clients develop stronger connections in both their personal and professional lives.
Linda is passionate about life coaching, the positive impact she has seen it have in the lives of so many of her clients. She has found that being a life coach affords her the opportunity to help people become more congruent in their lives in ways that she could not do as a therapist.
Linda holds a Masters in General Psychology from the University of Northern Iowa and a specialized certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from St. Mary’s University. Linda also holds certification from the Health Coaching Institute and a certification from the Road Runners Club of America as a running coach.
On a more personal note:
Linda is a huge dog lover! She understand how pets can be a major part of your family and found that they can even help in the road to recovery after physical/emotional stress.
Linda adopted a puppy from the Humane Society who has kept her on her toes. Kona has been featured on her website and social media. Her hopes for Kona to be a therapy dog were prevented because he turned out to be more of a lovable dope.
She recently adopted another dog, Lilly, who was an 18 month old stray and had recently had a litter of puppies. Lilly now enjoys all of the comforts of being part of a family and is living her best life!
Running is an essential part of Linda’s self-care routine. She loves it and tries to run one marathon each year. She recently began running on the trails in Minnesota. Linda finds the beauty in nature both healing and invigorating.
Linda has been married for 31 years. She and her husband live in Minnesota and have two grown children.
Education
University of Northern Iowa
Masters in Psychology
Saint Mary’s University, MN
Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy
Specialized Training for Relationship Empowerment Coaching
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT)
Completed a 4-day intensive training. This training is officially sanctioned by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT). EFT is a short-term structured psychotherapy approach to working with individuals, couples and families. This style is established in attachment theory although it has elements of experiential, person-centered, constructivist, and systems theory.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy: Level I
Completed an 11-hour program from The Gottman Institute. Gottman Method Couples Therapy is a research based relationship skills approach that is designed to noticeably improve the intimacy and friendship in your relationship. It also assists couples resolve conflict in a more productive way, foster respect, affection, and closeness.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy:
Completed a 21-hour program from The Gottman Institute. Level II expanded on the key concepts in Level I including: helping couples build and share a deeper connection, keeping conflict discussions calm, and breaking through the gridlock that conflicted couples experience.
Attended “The Emotional Intelligence in Couples Therapy: Advances from Neurobiology and the Science of Intimate Relationship” by Dr. Brent Atkinson
Additional Training for Empowerment Coaching
Hypnosis
Introductory Workshop in Clinical Hypnosis
University of MN Medical School Training
Advanced Workshop in Clinical Hypnosis
University of MN Medical School Training
DBT (Dialectic Behavioral Therapy)
Completed DBT Skills Training for Therapists
Completed Individual Therapy Mode in DBT
This was a 4-day training. DBT utilizes cognitive-behavioral techniques and teaches individuals to utilize four skill modules. These modules include: interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance, core mindfulness.
Trauma/Eye-movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) Training
EMDR is an effective treatment method for resolving emotional difficulties that are a result of difficult (scary, life threatening, painful) life experiences. Click here to learn more about EMDR
• EMDR Basic Training
• EMDR: Working with Addiction & Substance Use Disorders
• EMDR and Ego state Therapy: Across the Dissociative Continuum
• Reprocessing Early Trauma & Neglect
• Making EMDR Treatment Effective and Developmentally Appropriate for Children and Adolescents
New Frontiers in Trauma Treatment by Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD
TFT (Thought Field Therapy)
Treatment for distress, which provides an algorithm for the specific type of stress an individual is working on.
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