Deanna Linville, Ph.D., LMFT
Deanna Linville is the co-founder and Executive & Clinical Research Director at the Center for Transformative Healing. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Oregon and Washington. Deanna is a clinical member and approved supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) as well as the state of Oregon. Currently, she also volunteers as the co-clinical director for the Greater Oregon chapter of a national nonprofit organization, A Home Within, that offers pro bono mental health counseling to foster youth. She has two decades of experience providing direct mental healthcare, clinical supervision and instruction both in and out of academic settings. Deanna approaches clients with humility and through a holistic lens, aiming to promote their agency and self-efficacy. She cares deeply for her clients and finds that her community-based and intervention research invigorates and ensures that she is continually learning.
Deanna grounds her research, instruction, service, and clinical supervision in her fascination for helping people effectively remove the barriers that impede their capacity to make and sustain healthy changes and growth. Deanna’s clinical and research interests include the (1) promotion of individual and family wellness and biopsychosocial healing, (2) the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and (3) the reduction of health disparities.
After working mostly in academia for 19 years, Deanna wanted to create a center that cultivated a sense of community, collaboration, and collective healing in order to more fully integrate the three domains of her work: clinical service, clinical training and clinical research. She currently holds a Courtesy Research Associate Professor appointment at the University of Oregon’s Center for Equity Promotion, provides adjunct teaching and supervision to student therapists at Oregon Institute of Technology’s and Chaminade University of Honolulu’s family therapy programs, and is an Affiliate Full Professor at Daybreak University. Deanna’s professional experiences to date inspire her clinical research and allow her to stay on up-to-date on best practices for training mental health professionals to provide ethical and culturally responsive care.