Colinda Linde Clinical Psychologist & Cognitive Behavioural Therapist Randburg

Colinda Linde Clinical Psychologist & Cognitive Behavioural Therapist Randburg

Colinda Linde a Clinical Psychologist & Cognitive Behavioural Therapist in Randburg completed my undergraduate studies at Wits in 1989. I moved to RAU for a Psychology Honours (1990, cum laude) and Masters in Clinical Psychology (1991-1992), graduating in 1993 with an M.A. Clinical Psychology (cum laude). I earned a Doctorate in Psychology in 2001.

During my time at RAU, Prof Eddie Wolf (a Fulbright scholar who trained in CBT in the US) was part of the faculty, and I was able to obtain parallel cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) training with him, which started a lifelong passion for this approach. My training at Wits was psychodynamic, and at RAU (now the University of Johannesburg) it was a combination of systemic, interpersonal and person-centred. The CBT completed the picture, and is my favourite paradigm of work—mostly because it is an active, practical and rapidly effective approach based on research, where the therapist teaches the client how to become their own CBT therapist!