Clinician & CEO - Blackbird Family Therapy, Inc. | Matthew "Matt" Lindgren

Matthew Lindgren Rojo, LMFT

Matt Lindgren, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Walnut Creek on online at onlinecouplestherapy.com. Blogs about couples therapy, mental health, therapy, psychology and related random musings. 

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“We’re evaluating men and women on different traits or having different expectations for individuals who are doing the same job,” says Erin Davis, who teaches gender studies at Cornell College.

Davis notes that, on campus, a professor’s ability to nurture or mentor a student is certainly valued, but intellectual ability is generally the more prized quality in a professor. And Schmidt’s review of student perceptions suggests men have the advantage in that department.

Ultimately, judging men and women based on different qualities could shape very real decisions about things like tenure and promotion, Davis says.

“I would like to see both men and women be held to the same standards of intellectual ability and providing a challenge, but also mentoring and support,” she says.

How We Talk About Our Teachers

Graphics credit: Alyson Hurt/NPR

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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne Dyer (via quotedojo)
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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Abraham Lincoln
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About Matthew Lindgren

Matt Lindgren is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in the Oakland, California, area. The founder and CEO of Blackbird Family Therapy, Inc., Matt Lindgren works extensively with individuals from underserved populations and survivors of crimes and attacks. Matt Lindgren’s wide-ranging experiences and compassionate nature help him to convey to his patients the idea that, “Loving yourself allows others to love you.” 

Originally from the Midwest, Matt Lindgren earned his Bachelor’s degree in English from Minnesota State University Moorhead. He spent five years as a technical writer and demonstration engineer with Ariba Inc. in Sunnyvale, California, before entering the Clinical Psychology program at the New College of California in San Francisco. Lindgren explains that he entered the program because he wanted to give back to those who had helped him and give a purpose to losses in his own past. 

Matt Lindgren’s first internships allowed him to work with diverse populations and learn the newest therapeutic methods. At Las Tias Orphanage in Leon, Nicaragua, he used play therapy to evaluate and treat children living on the street. He also worked at the New College of California Community Counseling Center, using psychodynamic and play therapy to treat adults and children from the both the Latino and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT) communities of San Francisco. While he was an intern at the Anthropos Counseling Center in Livermore, California, Matthew Lindgren learned therapeutic techniques such as somatic experiencing and eye movement desensitization and processing (EMDR). 

Other therapists and past clients highly praise Lindgren’s methods. Professionals in his field have admired his integrity, compassion, and good judgment. Satisfied clients have commended his respect for boundaries, knowledge, and gentleness. Lindgren is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the organization’s East Bay chapter. 

For more information on Matthew Lindgren and his work, visit his website at matthewlindgren.com, or find him on Facebook and LinkedIn.

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