Linda Fleger-Berman, LICSW, BCD
123 Dean Road
Brookline, MA 02445
Phone: 617-738-9480
Email: Lflegerber@hotmail.com
Fax: 617-566-6380 (please call before faxing)
PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION
Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker #102883
Board Certified Diplomate #005317
American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Certification #411
EMDR – Levels I & II
Adult Attachment Inventory Analysis Certification – June 2007
ACADEMIC EDUCATION
Wellesley College, B.A., 1961
Simmons College School of Social Work, M.S.S.W., 1963
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Private Practice of Psychotherapy – 1968 to Present
Evaluate and treat adults, couples, teenagers and families. Provide short term, long term
treatment and crisis intervention. Treatment modalities include Psychoanalytically
Oriented Psychotherapy, Psychodrama, Bioenergetics, Hypnotherapy and Ego-State
Therapy, Addictions and Co-Dependence Counseling, and Eye movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing.
Center for Addiction Studies, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
Cambridge Hospital, Clinical Fellowship – 1993 to 1994
Evaluated and treated drug addicts. Counseled addicts in a methadone dosing clinic.
Led orientation groups for new clients. Participated in AIDS education training program.
Completed empirical assessment of the Center for Addiction Studies’ training program.
South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, MA – August 1978 to August 1984
Supervised social workers engaged in evaluating and treating families and adolescents.
South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, MA – August 1969 to April 1978
Child and Family Unit – Evaluated and treated adolescents, parents and families, using
short term and long term psychodynamic psychotherapy. Supervised staff social workers,
second year social work graduate students, and psychology interns. Provided case
consultation to local public schools. Participated in the administration of a twelve
member clinical team serving the towns of Randolph and Milton.
Adult Unit – Evaluated and treated adults in long term treatment. Provided night and
weekend emergency intervention. Supervised medical students.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – CONTINUED
Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, MA – August 1963 to August 1969
Child Psychiatry Unit – Evaluated and treated parents and adolescents. Supervised second
year graduate students and staff social workers.
Southard Adult Outpatient Walk-In Clinic – Evaluated adults and followed up with short
term treatment or made referrals for appropriate care.
CLINICAL EDUCATION
Graduate School Training Placements
Beth Israel Hospital, Child Psychiatry Department, Boston, MA – 1962 to 1963
Church Home Society (child placement agency), Boston, MA – 1961 to 1962
Post Graduate Training
Massachusetts Mental Health Center – 1963 to 1969
Psychodynamically oriented weekly supervision
 Parent diagnosis and treatment
 Adolescent diagnosis and treatment
 Adult group therapy
 Adult diagnosis and treatment
South Shore Mental Health Center – 1969 to 1978
Psychodynamically oriented weekly supervision
 Adolescent and family therapy
 Adult diagnosis and treatment
CONTINUING EDUCATION (HIGHLIGHTS)
Psychodrama Institute of Boston – 1985 to 1990
Ongoing weekend workships and individual training in Psychodrama and Bioenergetics
with Ildri Ginn, psychologist
Psychodrama and Bioenergetics
Seven day intensive Training in Psychodrama and Bioenergetics with Ildri Ginn and Bob
Ginn, PhD.
Massachusetts Society for Bioenergetic Analysis – 1988 to 1989
64 hour training
Daniel P. Brown, PhD. & Associates, Center for Integrative Psychotherapy – 1990 to Present
 Introductory Workshop in Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy (18 hours)
 Externship practicum in Hypnotherapy Methods and Clinical Applications of
Hypnotherapy (64 hours)
 Hypnotherapy and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (18 hours)
 Hypnosis and Ego-State Therapy Workshop conducted by Helen Watkins, PhD. And Jac
Watkins, PhD. (24 hours)
 Treatment of Sexual Desire Disorders in PTSD and DID Patients
 Treatments of Post-Traumatic and Dissociative Disorders (19.5 hours)
 Advanced Hypnotherapy: Exploratory Techniques with D. Corydon Hammond, PhD.
(19.5 hours)
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Path of Transformation Through Meditation and Psychotherapy (14 hours)
Phase-Oriented Treatment of Psychological Trauma (12 hours)
Master Workshops on Integrative Hypnotherapy (13 hours)
Schema Therapy with Resistant Patients conducted by Jeffrey Young, PhD.
Adult Attachment Inventory Training Institute (47.5 hours)
The Pointing Out Way of Tibetan Buddhist Meditation (30 hours)
Psychological Trauma: Treating Mind and Body – Attachment, Mentalization, and
Somatization (12.5 hours)
Contemporary Approaches and Treating Attachment Pathology (13 hours)
Advanced Externship in Assessment and Treatment of Attachment and Pathology
(64 hours)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
National Organization of Social Workers
Massachusetts Academy of Clinical Social Workers
Society of Clinical and experimental Hypnosis
American society for Clinical Hypnosis
Eye Movement desensitization and Reprocessing Network, Inc.
PUBLICATION
“Evaluating the Impact of a Clinical Training Program in the Addictions”
Freda L. Scotch, Linda Fleger-Berman, and Howard J. Shaffer
Substance Use & Misuse, 32 (10), p.p. 1331-1348, 1997