Dr. Linda Barnum, PhD — The Aegean Intensive

The practice

Two decades of the deepest work there is — almost none of it public.

Linda combines her years of clinical skills and training with her intuitive and spirit-led heart to create an environment of safety, depth and healing.

Dr. Linda Barnum has kept a bespoke private practice since 2012 for people whose lives leave no room for one: Fortune 500 executives, founders and physicians, high performers in demanding fields, and the families behind them.

The practice specialises in complex post-traumatic stress, developmental trauma, attachment injury and the intergenerational kind — the sort that was handed down rather than acquired. The work integrates somatic psychology with EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems and attachment-based treatment, and it is built around regulation, stability and what the literature calls post-traumatic growth: not merely recovering, but arriving somewhere better than before.

Clients arrive quietly, almost always by referral, on the word of someone who trusts her. Many have carried something for decades while running companies, operating rooms and households. Discretion is not a courtesy in this practice; it is a condition of it.

She is also engaged as a forensic consultant in matters involving mental health and complex mediation — the situations where the reading of a room has consequences.

Credentials

Credentialed at the level the work demands.

Doctorate PhD, Clinical Psychology The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2017

Licensure Licensed Professional Counselor–Supervisor Private practice since 2012 · Supervisor since 2022

Academic post Professor of Human Relations University of Oklahoma, since 2019

Graduate degrees MA Clinical Psychology · MA Human Relations Santa Barbara Graduate Institute, 2011 · University of Oklahoma, 2006

Generational work Certified Hellinger Family Systems Facilitator For generational trauma — the core method of this intensive

Somatic Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level III Certified therapist and instructor

Trauma reprocessing EMDR, Levels I & II With EEG Neurofeedback at advanced training level

Couples Emotionally Focused Therapy · Gottman Level Two Alongside certification in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Parts work Certified in Internal Family Systems IFS — used alongside the generational work

Contemplative practice Mindfulness under Thich Nhat Hanh Green Mountain Dharma Center, 2000 · teaching yoga and meditation since 1989

Expert consultation Forensic consultant Mental health matters and complex mediation, since 2017

Clinical specialism Complex PTSD & developmental trauma Attachment injury and the intergenerational kind

Beyond the practice

The work has a public life as well as a private one.

The forthcoming book

Co-author of The Intergenerational Trauma Treatment Model: Understanding and Resolving Trauma Across Generations, forthcoming from Routledge — the clinical framework this intensive draws on.

Teaching the teachers

She trains practising clinicians in intergenerational repair under CEU hours approved by the Oklahoma State Board of Behavioral Health, and supervises counsellors toward licensure in her state.

Invited internationally

Recent presentations include Auckland University in New Zealand, the Geological Society of America, and a panel on Music and the Mind with Renée Fleming.

Suicide prevention

Member of the City of Tulsa Suicide Prevention Committee on policy and implementation, and of the Healthy Minds Policy Initiative.

The Human Voice Project

Co-founder of The Human Voice Project, an initiative on human dignity and sustainability through the AI transition, and liaison for OU with the L.E.A.P. Institute.

Why this format

Why five days can do what years of hours cannot.

A quiet lounge aboard ship, two chairs facing each other beside a window onto the sea.

Generational work has a rhythm, and fifty minutes interrupts it. In a sustained container — away from the schedule, the roles and the performance of being fine — the work can go where it needs to go and stay there long enough to finish something.

That is what this format restores: time, privacy and momentum. — Dr. Linda Barnum