Linda Goldman is a certified grief therapist and certified death educator with an MS degree in counseling and Master's Equivalency in early childhood education. She worked as a teacher and counselor in the school system for almost twenty years. Currently she has a private grief therapy practice in Chevy Chase, MD. She works with children, teenagers, families with prenatal loss, and grieving adults. Linda shares workshops, courses, and trainings on children and grief and now teaches on the faculty of the Graduate Program of Counseling at Johns Hopkins University. She has also teaches on the faculty at the U. of Md. School of Social Work/ Advanced Certification Program for Children and Adolescents and lectured at many other universities including Penn. State University, University of North Carolina, and The National Changhua University of Education in Taiwan as well as numerous schools systems throughout the country. 

Linda has worked as a consultant for the National Head Start Program and was a panelist in the National Teleconference: When A Parent Dies: How to Help The Child. She has appeared on the Diane Rehms show to discuss children and grief. She was named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one of the top therapists in the MD, VA. DC area (1998) and again named by The Washingtonian Magazine as a therapist to go to after the terrorist attacks in 2001. She has served on the board of ADEC, The Association for Death Education and Counseling, and is presently on the advisory board of SPEAK, Suicide Prevention Education Awareness for Kids.

Linda Goldman is the author of Life and Loss: A Guide To Help Grieving Children (First edition, 1994/ Second edition 2000) Taylor and Francis Publishers. Her second book is Breaking The Silence: A Guide To Help Children With Complicated Grief (First edition, 1996/Second edition 2002). Her other books include Bart Speaks Out: An Interactive Storybook for Young Children On Suicide (1998), a Phi Delta Kappan International fastback, Helping the Grieving Child in the School (2000), and a Chinese Edition of Breaking the Silence: A Guide to Help Children With Complicated Grief (2001 ) and the Japanese Edition of Life and Loss: A Guide to Help Grieving Children (2002). Linda also created a CD-ROM “A Look at Children’s Grief” (2001) published by ADEC, The Association for Death Education and Counseling. Her op/ed “Cut Out Guns, Bullying” appeared in the Baltimore Sun, March, 2001.