Episode Description

In this episode Jenny talks with Dr Linda Mackay on parenting with a backdrop of trauma and adversity and how this affects building confidence in parenting.

Linda MacKay is an accredited psychotherapist & counsellor, who practices in Mudgee, Blaxland and offers online sessions. She is also a lecturer, trainer, and supervisor, with degrees and qualifications in counselling, couple and family therapy and her PhD in critical psychology (UWS). 

Linda lectures at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University of Notre Dame, counsels private individuals, and coaches business executives who wish to optimize their performance as leaders. She is also a clinical member of PACFA & Accredited Supervisor for AAFT. 

She has extensive experience working with individuals, couples and families, and has specialised in working with people who have suffered grief and loss, and complex trauma issues including child sexual abuse, domestic violence, dissociation and self-harm. 

She incorporates the Parent Hope Project in her work.  

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