Garrity Linda I DR

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Dr. Linda I. Garrity is a licensed Ph.D. Cinical Psychologist and a Certified Psychoanalyst. She has provided psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for the last 15 years to residents of Madison, Wisconsin and surrounding areas. Her extensive experience with both psychotherapy and psychoanalysis enables her to offer clients a variety of treatment options.

Dr. Garrity completed a 9-year post-doctoral training program in Psychoanalysis in 2000 at one of the best training programs in the U.S, The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Chicago, IL. After graduating she attained Certification as a Psychoanalyst from The American Psychoanalytic Association. She was appointed as a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst by both the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute and The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, is a Faculty member at both Institutes, and has taught classes to psychoanalysts-in-training.

As a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School's Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Garrity has been supervising advanced psychiatric residents in psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy.

Prior to pursuing psychoanalytic training, and after receiving her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology after 7 years of training, Dr. Garrity was in private practice as a psychotherapist. She founded the Center for Counseling & Psychological Services, a State-Certified Clinic in downtown Madison, at which she has been providing psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and consultation to clients, and supervision to mental health professionals. Prior to founding the Center for Counseling, Dr. Garrity was the Director of Psychology and of the Pre-doctoral Clinical Psychology Internship Program at The Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison for 7 years.

She has published and given presentations in the areas of Psychoanalysis, Self-Esteem, Creativity, and Early Identification and Treatment of Parent-Child Bonding Patterns. She holds memberships in The American Psychoanalytic Association, The American Psychological Association (and in the distinguished Section I of the Division of Psychoanalysis), The Wisconsin Psychological Association, The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, The Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society, and The International Psychoanalytical Association.