Linda Seligman

Linda Seligman has been a professor in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, for more than 20 years. She served as co-director of the Doctoral Program in Education, coordinator of the Counseling and Development Program, Associate Chair, and head of the Community Agency Counseling Program. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and Walden University. Dr. Seligman received a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. Her research interests include diagnosis and treatment planning, counseling people with cancer and other chronic and life-threatening illnesses, and career counseling. She has written nine books, including Systems, Strategies, and Skills of Counseling and Psychotherapy; Selecting Effective Treatments; Diagnosis and Treatment Planning in Counseling; Developmental Career Counseling and Assessment; and Promoting a Fighting Spirit: Psychotherapy for Cancer Patients, Survivors, and Their Families. She also has written more than 75 professional articles and book chapters. In addition, she has lectured throughout the United States as well as internationally on diagnosis and treatment planning and is a recognized expert on that subject. Dr. Seligman has extensive clinical experience in a broad range of mental health settings, including drug and alcohol treatment programs, university counseling settings, psychiatric hospitals, correctional facilities, and counseling programs for children and adolescents. She currently has a private practice in Fairfax, Virginia. Dr. Seligman has served as editor of the Journal of Mental Health Counseling and as president of the Virginia Association of Mental Health Counselors. In 1986, her colleagues at George Mason University selected her as a Distinguished Professor, and in 1990, the American Mental Health Counselors Association designated her as Researcher of the Year.