Lindan Lawson

Lecturer
lindanlawson@uchicago.edu
Address

969 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

Areas of Expertise
Contextually Focused Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Mental Health

Course

  • 43800 Skills for Conducting Psychotherapy with Chronically Distressed Persons
  • 40403 Fundamentals of Behavioral Therapy

Job experience

  • Owner and Therapist, Intention Therapy
  • Clinical Director and DBT Specialist, Proactive Therapy
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapist and Training Consultant, Ann Arbor DBT Center
  • Clinical Director and Therapist, Prince William Family Counseling
  • Medical Social Worker, Palomar Health
  • Clinical Case Manager, Mental Health Systems Incorporated

Fields of Special Interest

  • Mental Health
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Clinical Supervision and Training

Presentations (last 3 years)

  • Lawson, L. (2020).Treating Co-occurring Disorders with DBT. Presentation to the Women’s Association for Addiction Treatment. Chicago, IL. 
  •  Lawson, L. & Thompkins, A. (2020). Using Mindfulness to Weather the Storm of COVID-19. Presentation to the Chicago Junior League. Chicago, IL.
  •  Lawson, L. (2020). Mindfulness as a Self-Care Strategy for Vicarious Trauma. Presentation to undergraduate students at Northeastern Illinois University. Chicago, IL. 
  •  Hartford, C. & Lawson, L. (2019). Treating Complex Cases with DBTA one-day training at the Ann Arbor DBT Center. Ann Arbor, MI.
  •  Hartford, C. & Lawson L. (2019). DBT for Youth and Families.A two-day training at the Ann Arbor DBT Center. Ann Arbor, MI.
  •  Hartford, C. & Lawson, L. (2019). DBT for Youth and Families. A four-day training at the Detroit Behavioral Institute. Detroit, MI.
  •  Hartford, C. & Lawson, L. (2018). Individual DBT. A two-day training at the Ann Arbor DBT Center. Ann Arbor, MI.
  •  Lawson, L. (2017). DBT for Suicidal Adolescents. A presentation to graduate students at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI.