Linda is a Registered Art therapist with the American Association of Art therapy and is certified in Dementia Care Mapping with University Hospitals Health System Heather Hill. She holds a BA from Arizona State University.

Linda has worked in the adult and adolescent behavioral health field for 20 years and 3 ½ years in the Dementia care field and Adult Day Health Service. She has been responsible for providing creative arts therapies, life skills therapies, group therapy, and supervision of RT’s, MT’s, OT’s as well as Directing Activity Therapy Programming in Psychiatric facilities.

She is currently the Supervisor of Mary’s Place, a Memory Care Adult Day Health Care Facility, for persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of Dementia, is active with the local Alzheimer’s Association and the Arizona Association of Adult Day Services, a member of NADSA.