Linda Arkin, LCSW, Director

205 West End Avenue, #6E New York, NY 10023

(212) 414-9677 • lindajarkin@gmail.com

I am a graduate and faculty member of the Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, a feminist psychoanalytic institute, as well as the supervisor of their Postgraduate Training Program in Eating and Body Image Problems. I’ve coordinated the Brooklyn Domestic Violence Program for the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services. For seventeen years I have been the Director of Connect and Change, a project that provides pro bono therapy for victims of domestic violence. At the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, I was on the Trauma Studies Center training committee. I was also a consultant for the Gay and Lesbian Anti- Violence Project for fifteen years. 

My supervision style is collaborative and supportive, with an emphasis on independent and creative thinking. For over twenty years I have been in private practice in New York, where I utilize EMDR with individuals and EFT (Emotional Focused Therapy) with couples.

Amy Edminster, LCSW, Assistant Director

26 West 9th St., Suite 9C, New York, NY 10011

917-597-8853 • amyedminster@gmail.com

I have had a private psychotherapy practice in New York City, working with individuals and couples for over 20 years.

I graduated from The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute’s three-year, post-graduate training program, which emphasizes contemporary relational psychotherapy and feminist thought. I currently supervise WTCI students. I am a graduate of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies Clinical Affiliate Program in trauma treatment, an EMDR clinician, and am trained in Emotionally Focussed Therapy for couples.

As a founding member and Assistant Director of Connect and Change, I am part of a group that provides pro-bono psychotherapy to those who have been victims of intimate partner violence. I am a member of The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute’s Diversity Committee, as well as the NYC Trauma Recovery Network, providing EMDR therapy for traumatized frontline workers.

I’m interested in working with trauma and the full range of human suffering and questioning, with people of all ethnicities, cultures, religions, classes, genders, and sexual identities.