Linda Lin

(she/her)
MCP-AT, RCC, RCAT
Clinical Supervisor

This page outlines my background, trainings, theoretical orientation, and approach to clinical supervision.

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Credentials:

Registered Clinical Counsellor of BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC #16037)

Registered Canadian Art Therapist of Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA #339-R-22)

Master of Counselling Psychology: Art Therapy (MCP-AT) from Adler University

Clinical Supervision:

Clinical supervision is for counsellors, art therapists and qualifying practitioners. Supervision is approached as a relational, reflexive, and co-created process. You are welcome to bring questions, feedback, and evolving needs at any point throughout our work together.

Experience

I am a group practice founder and a mental health clinician (counsellor and art therapist) at Decipher Counselling Art Therapy Studio, established in 2019. I offer therapy and workshops grounded in creative, relational, and liberation-oriented approaches. My work primarily supports QTBIPOC individuals and those navigating identity, relational and intergenerational experiences, complex trauma, systemic stress, and creativity.

As a clinical supervisor, I support clinicians (students, associates, and practitioners) in navigating ethical tensions in their practice as they work with clients experiencing relational concerns, complex PTSD, and disenfranchised grief, as well as the impacts of internalized colonial dynamics shaped by systemic pressures. Building on intersectional approaches to support work with underrepresented and complex presentations such as disordered eating, OCD, relational trauma, and culturally and neurodivergence-informed care. I integrate both talk therapy and art-based approaches, and adapt to each supervisee’s learning needs and preferred style.

Specialties and Theoretical Orientation

My approach to therapy and supervision is integrative and grounded in:

• Trauma-, neuro-, grief-, culturally, and relationally informed practice
• Humility and attention to intergenerational and systemic contexts
• The body as a site of knowing and healing
• Expanding capacity rather than pathologizing responses
• Honouring both structure and intuition in clinical work


…with an emphasis on:
• Somatic, Narrative, EMDR, ERP, Mindfulness, CBT, IFS, Attachment theory, and Psychodynamic influences
• Art therapy and other expressive modalities
• Intersectional, liberation-oriented, decolonizing, and anti-carceral care, with attention to power mapping

Within supervision, I draw on reflective and reflexive dialogue, experiential exercises (including art-based prompts), and collaborative inquiry. My style is relational, affirming, and gently challenging, with attention to both clinical skill development and the therapist’s internal experience.

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Linda currently has limited spots for clients and supervisees:

Ongoing Trainings:

Selected trainings I have completed, created, or attended related to my specializations:

• 30-hour Clinical Supervision Series by Dr.Nagel (Mar 2026)

• Fundamentals of Exposure-Based Therapy for OCD and Anxiety Disorders (Dec 2025)

• Co-creator / facilitator for Art Therapy Course: Rooted in Ease (Sep 2025)

• Hakomi Intro: The Art of Our Collective Journey from Wounding to Embodied Wholeness with Brian Lim LMFT (Jun 2025)

• Facilitator for Portal for Play with Leah Wei (Apr 2024)

• Socials and co-facilitator for Reflecting on Justice (May 2022-Jan 2024)

• Radical Mental Health First Aide- suicide and safety planning workshop with Oumou (Mar 2024)

• Decolonizing Mental Health for AAPI Youth & Families with Jennifer Wong, NYU CSAAH (Nov 2023)

• Resisting Collusion: Learn How to Navigate Common Roadblocks of Justice-Doing with Abby Chow and Bhupie Dulay (Aug 2023)

• Becoming an Antiracist and Anti-Oppressive Clinician with Dr. Han Ren and Dr. Raquel Martin (Feb 2023)

• Supervision of Solidarity: Creating a Culture of Critique & Structuring Safety with Vikki Reynolds and Dương Ocean Đặng (Jun 2022)

• Foundations in Somatic Abolitionism with Resmaa Menakem
co-facilitated by Carlin Quinn (Jun 2022)

• Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training Vancouver (Feb 2022) Beginning I

• Justice-Doing in Alternative Practice Workshop with Vikki Reynolds (Dec 2021)

• Emerging from Individualism: Creating Transformative Change with Fyre Jean Graveline (Nov 2021)

• Emergence Beyond Our Colonial Shadow: Indigenizing Art Therapy with Fyre Jean Graveline, Jean Tait, and Jen Vivian (Nov 2021)

• Climate Crisis, Fragmentation and Collective Trauma with Dr. Gabor Maté, Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq, Bayo Akomolafe & Eriel Tchekwie Deranger (Oct 2021)

• Processing Rage with Ji-Youn Kim (Aug 2021)

• Tending the Roots: Festival of Resilience & Reimagination, Culture & Community (Apr 2021)

• CATA Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression Workshop Part 3: Commitment and Taking Action with Virginia Jahyu (MA, ExAT) (Apr 2021)

• CATA Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression Workshop Part 2: Power, Oppression, Resistance, and Resilience with Virginia Jahyu (MA, ExAT) (Mar 2021)

• Narrative Therapy: Online 5-Day Foundations Certificate Training with Stephan Madigan PhD, David Nylund PhD, Todd May PhD, Rosa Arteaga MA, David Marsten MA, and Lorraine Hedtke PhD (Feb 2021)

• Compassion in Therapy Summit: Kristin Neff, PhD, Tara Brach, PhD, and Dan Siegel, PhD (Jan 2021)

• EMDR training: Five-day Intensive with Roy Kiessling, LISW (Sept 2019)

• Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy: Level II with Dr. Dorie PhD (Sept 2019)

• Eating Disorder Intuitive Therapy: Level I with Dr. Dorie PhD (Jul 2019)

• Gottman’s Couple Therapy: Level 1 training (May 2017)

• The Embodied Trauma Conference (2020)

• Narrative Therapy working with Meera Dhebar MSW RSW (Sept 2017-May 2018)

• Existential Analysis: Introduction with Kari-Ann (Dec 2018)

• Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: An Overview

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

• Reconciliation through Indigenous Education (Mar 2018)

• SafeTALK Suicide Prevention (Jan 2017)

• Cows Can be Purple Workshop Facilitator working with Deb Bailey

• Introduction to Phototherapy with Judy Weiser (Nov 2016)

• Julia Cameron's Artist's Way Facilitator

• Lessons from the Field: Ally Work and Addressing Power Across Difference with Vikki Reynolds

• Cultural Art Experience and Explanation – Musqueam Weaving with Debra Sparrow

• Key Strategies for Helping Hostile and Avoidant Couples Resolve Conflict with Dr. Ellyn Bader of the Couples Institute

• How to Deal With the Narcissistic Personality with narcissism expert, Wendy Behary