Linda has worked in the Family program at Rideauwood Addictions and Family Services since 2013. She provides individual and group counselling for family members. Linda is a graduate of Carleton, McMaster, and Drew Universities. She immigrated to Canada from England as a child with parents from Germany and Sri Lanka. Linda lived in the United States as a wife, parent, student. Then she worked as a counsellor in residential treatment programs for adults and adolescents struggling with substance and behavioural use disorders.