Linda

Thai

A teacher and therapist, she specializes in the treatment of complex developmental trauma.

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Specialist in brain-body based modalities for healing trauma.

Linda Thai is a somatic therapist, trauma therapist, and teacher specializing in brain and body modalities for treating complex developmental trauma. Linda has worked with thousands of people around the world promoting mindfulness and helping them heal trauma and grieve as a way to care for themselves. Linda’s work is centered on healing, with a particular focus on the experiences of adults who were immigrants or refugees as children. Her teachings are infused with empathy, storytelling, humor, research, practical tools, applied knowledge, and experiential wisdom.

She assisted internationally renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk in his private small group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma. She holds a Master of Social Work with a specialization in the neurobiology of attachment and trauma.

Linda has studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, IFS (Internal Family Systems), Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), Havening Touch, Flash Technique, and Structural Personality Dissociation. Her practice includes teaching the Safe and Sound Protocol, yoga, and meditation. Linda works on the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people (in Fairbanks, Alaska) with individuals healing from addiction, trauma, and mental health issues. She is passionate about breaking cycles of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels.

Specialist in brain-body modalities for healing trauma.

Linda Thai LMSW (she, her) is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting edge brain- and body-based modalities for the healing of complex developmental trauma.

As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the ability to contextualize, synthesize and communicate complex and nuanced issues pertaining to trauma, attachment and the nervous system, including the impact of oppressive systems upon identity, mental health and wellbeing.

Linda is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels, and deeply believes in the healing power of coming together in community to grieve.

Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, and now living in Alaska, Linda is a former refugee child who is not only redefining what it means to be Vietnamese, to be Australian, and to be a United States-ian….she is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer.

Linda Thai

Linda Thai experienced trauma from forced displacement at a young age. For her own survival, she researched the intersection of trauma and the body, which led her to work with thousands of people around the world.

She assisted Dr. Bessel van der Kolk in his private psychotherapy workshops.
She studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, IFS and TIST treatment (among others!).
An outstanding storyteller, she is a teacher full of empathy and humor.