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"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging" - Joseph Campbell

Areas covered include:
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Communication

Linda Eldredge, Ed.D. Psychologist

Linda Eldredge, Ed.D., is a licensed psychologist with a full-time outpatient private practice. She works with individuals, couples, and families involving adults and older adolescents. Dr. Eldredge addresses issues such as relationships, depression, anxiety, communication difficulties, job stress, life transitions, spirituality, empath / intuition skills, LGBTQ+ issues, disabilities, and coping with verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual trauma. In addition to serving the general population, she works with people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Late-Deafened, Deaf-Blind, or who have one or more disabilities. Dr. Eldredge can work with children ages six to 16 if they are Deaf or one of their parents is Deaf.  She is a Hearing person who is fluent in both American Sign Language (ASL) and Signed English.

 

Dr. Eldredge received a B.S. in Behavioral Sciences from Howard Payne University. At Texas Woman’s University, she obtained an M.A. in Communication Science – Deaf Education. She earned her Doctor of Education in Educational Psychology from Baylor University.  Her doctoral dissertation researched a communication system that stops verbal abuse using verbal self-defense skills. Dr. Eldredge has been a licensed psychologist since 1991. In addition, she is a Level I Verbal Self-Defense Trainer, an All-Level Teacher of the Hearing Impaired, a Certified School Counselor, and a Certified Special Education School Counselor.

 

Dr. Eldredge worked as an educator and interpreter of the Deaf and Hearing Impaired, and contracted as a school counselor/consultant for the Deaf in Waco.  One of the courses that she taught middle school and high school Deaf students was Sex Education. She served as the Regional Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services Director for a six-county area in Central Texas. In Houston, Dr. Eldredge was a psychotherapist and then a licensed psychologist in private practice for several years. For two years, she was the half-time psychologist at Texas School for the Deaf working with high-risk students, and she also had a limited private practice in Austin. She has been in full-time private practice in Austin since 1995. Dr. Eldredge has presented seminars on Mental Health and Deafness, as well as on Spirituality and Mental Health. She has also taught Verbal Self-Defense Skills through the University of Texas Informal Classes.

All sessions must be done face-to-face to ensure the most accurate results. Please contact us for any personal queries

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