Linda is a holistic health practitioner, author of books and courses, speaker, trainer/educator, and massage therapist specializing in seniors and the disabled. She brings decades of experience working with and advocating for our developmentally disabled and mentally ill to now serving an aging population. These groups share similar issues.
Linda is a baby boomer herself. Insights have been gained from personal health issues and working with her clients . She has used the methods found for herself to help others. Observing and assessing attitudes, environments, and special needs is a key in her work.
As a massage therapy specialist, she can feel and see much of the body and bring attention to such things a suspicious moles, lumps, and the like. Massage therapists are one of the last professions to actually take the time to observe the skin, feet, posture, contractures, imbalances, and more that are often overlooked. She educates on canes, walkers, crutches, and wheelchairs for proper selection and use as there is vast misuse in the country.
Her M.A. in Counseling Psychology increases the understanding of various challenges faced by maturing adults. Linda’s unique vantage point comes from her experiences. She worked her way up from direct care worker to becoming an administrator of two group homes.
Then came her time as a federal advocate for Hawaii’s developmentally disabled, where both she and Hawaii gained knowledge that served her clients even after she left. Other experiences included time being a mental health worker, teacher and a teacher’s aid at a state hospital.
Linda has partnered with Massage Inc., a rapidly expanding massage company, where her book will become mandatory reading for their therapists in 2023and beyond. The Parkinson’s Resource Organization (PRO) has also called on her skills and expertise to educate their membership in 2022/3. She writes for iPain magazine and PRO. And The National Holistic Institute, the largest and oldest chain of massage schools in California, has used her on Zoom trainings and promoted her BIBA award-winning book to their students.
Linda has been on many podcasts and some radio shows and has released several press releases in 2021. Some of the podcasts are on her website, www.loveyourlongevity.com, under the media tab. Recommendations for her book, “The SPIRIT Method of Massage for Seniors…Raising the Bar…A Primer for Massage Therapists and Caregivers”, are on Amazon and on her website where they are expanded on with the credentials of the reviewers.
Contact Details:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-mac-dougall-984820
