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{Linda Carroll, MS, has worked as a couple's therapist for more than 30 years. In addition to being a licensed psychotherapist, she is certified in Transpersonal Psychology and Imago Therapy, the highly successful form of couple's therapy developed by Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt. She is also a master teacher in the Pairs Psychoeducation Process, a nationally-recognized relationship education program for couples.
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| birth_name = Linda Anne Risi
| birth_date = April 1944
| birth_place = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
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| residence =[[Corvallis, Oregon|Corvallis]], [[Oregon]], U.S.
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| children = 5
| yearsactive = 1980-present
| known_for = Therapist; led to surrender of fugitive [[Katherine Ann Power|Katherine Power]]
| occupation = Author, therapist, counselor
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'''Linda Carroll''' (born 1944) is an American author and a marriage and family therapist.<ref>[http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200606/tortured-love Linda Carroll's background and family]</ref> Carroll received national attention in 1993 when she convinced [[Katherine Ann Power]], a patient of hers at the time, to turn herself into authorities after spending twenty-three years eluding police for a bank robbery and murder she had been involved in.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/us/a-conscience-haunted-by-a-radical-s-crime.html|work=The New York Times|title=A Conscience Haunted by a Radical's Crime|date=1993-09-17|accessdate=2014-07-25|author=Egan, Timothy}}</ref> Carroll primarily works as a [[relationship counseling|relationship counselor]], but also specializes in issues pertinent to [[LGBT]] clients.<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/name/Linda_A._Carroll-Barraud_Corvallis_Oregon_39520|work=Therapists.about.com|title=Linda Carroll-Barraud|accessdate=2014-07-25}}</ref>


Carroll is the mother of singer and musician [[Courtney Love]], and the daughter of author [[Paula Fox]].
Linda has studied many modalities of psychological and spiritual work, including Voice Dialogue with Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, Holotropic Breathwork with Dr. Stan Grof, the Four-Fold With Angeles Arrien, the Diamond Heart Work of A.H. Almaas, and training with The Couples Institute of Drs. Ellyn Bader and Peter Pearson. She is also certified in the Hot Monogamy program, which helps couples create or re-create a passionate connection between them.


==Biography==
Linda works with a limited number of couples regularly in a new style of "concierge therapy," in which she travels to their home or office for 2-6 days per year for private, all-day sessions, offering ongoing Skype and phone sessions in between. She teaches workshops and delivers keynote addresses throughout the United States and is a frequent speaker at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico.
Linda was born to Paula Fox when she was 20,<ref name=sfgate>{{cite web| url=http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/MOTHERS-DAUGHTERS-Courtney-Love-s-mom-Linda-2505140.php| title=MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS / Courtney Love's mom, Linda Carroll, reflects on her daughter and her own birth mother| author=Neva Chonin| date=February 5, 2006| publisher=San Francisco Chronicle| accessdate=3 March 2013}}</ref>
the result of a short-lived relationship.
<ref name=newyorker>{{cite news|last=Acocella|first=Joan|title=From Bad Beginnings |url=http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/05/16/110516crbo_books_acocella |accessdate=2012-03-01 |newspaper=The New Yorker|date=May 16, 2011}}</ref> Paula lived under the roof of acting coach [[Stella Adler]] at the time, as did then unknown actor [[Marlon Brando]]. There have been persistent rumours that Brando fathered the child, although neither Brando nor Fox ever commented on these and Carroll's paternity remains unknown.<ref>[http://observer.com/2013/04/courtney-loveless-family-tree-remains-mystery-as-feud-with-grandma-sizzles/ Linda Carroll's paternity]</ref> Given the tumultuous relationship with Paula's own biological parents, she gave the child up for adoption. Linda was adopted into a Catholic family of part Italian descent, and was raised in [[Pacific Heights]] by Jack and Louella Risi. Linda took her surname after her friend Judy Carroll, after Judy's death.<ref name=sfgate />
Linda graduated from high school in 1961. She married writer and one time-[[Grateful Dead]] manager Hank Harrison in Reno,<ref name=sfgate /> and gave birth to Courtney Love in 1964. Within years of Courtney's birth, both Carroll's adoptive parents died. Also, Carroll's three-month-old baby died of a heart defect.
<ref name=independent>{{cite web| url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/no-love-lost-for-a-mothers-lost-love-130646.html| title=No love lost for a mother's lost love| author=Gaby Wood| date=28 May 2006| publisher=Independent Woman| accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite book|title=Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love|author=Carroll, Linda|isbn=978-0-385-51247-3|publisher=Doubleday|year=2005}}</ref>
She divorced Harrison in 1969, alleging that he had given Love LSD, and brought her daughter with her to [[Marcola, Oregon]]. She had two other daughters with the second husband, and settled on a hippie commune in Oregon. She divorced and married Frank Rodriguez.
<ref>{{cite book |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=uQ2I9cpJWYIC&pg=PA188#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity |first=K Elan|last= Jung|pages=188–189 |publisher=The Hudson Press|year=2010 |accessdate=2011-10-30}}</ref>


After finishing her bachelors degree in [[Oregon]] in the 1970s, she moved to [[New Zealand]]. She returned to Oregon in the 1980s and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. In the nineties, she and her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, began to teach a couples course based on the [[Imago Therapy|Imago]] work of [[Harville Hendrix]], the [[PAIRS Foundation|PAIRS]] training of Dr. Lori Gordon, and their own insights, study, and practices.
Linda lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, and their dog, a Jack Russell Terrier. She has five children and nine grandchildren. In 2006, her memoir, Her Mother's Daughter, was published by Doubleday. In 2008, Remember Who You Are was published by Conari Press in San Francisco Her recent book, Love Cycles:The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love was released in the fall of 2014 by New World Library.

Find her on the web at lindaacarroll.com or lovecycles.org
As an adult, Carroll found that her birth mother is the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter [[Elsie Fox]]).<ref name=independent/>
In 2006, her memoir ''Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love'', was published by Doubleday.<ref name=usatoday>{{cite web| url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-08-24-courtney-love_x.htm| title=Courtney Love's mom denies paper's story| date=2003-08-24| publisher=USA Today| accessdate=1 March 2013}}</ref>
Carroll has not spoken to her daughter in years and remains estranged. Love's agent called the book a work of "vicious and greedy fiction", and said, "We find it astonishing that any mother should write such a book. This is especially true in the case of Ms Carroll, who abandoned her daughter when she was a seven-year-old and whom Ms Love thus barely knows at all."<ref name=sfgate /><ref name=independent />
In 2008, ''Remember Who You Are'' was published by Conari Press, and she is currently working on a book about relationships entitled ''Love Cycles''.
<ref>{{cite web| url=http://experiencelife.com/article/the-same-old-argument/| title=The Same Old Argument| author=Jon Spayde| date=May 2012| accessdate=3 March 2013| publisher=Experience Life}}</ref>

As of 2014, Carroll has five children and ten grandchildren.<ref>[http://www.lindaacarroll.com/about.html Linda Carroll children and grandchildren]</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* http://www.lindaacarroll.com

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Revision as of 04:28, 24 August 2014

Linda Carroll
Born
Linda Anne Risi

April 1944
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Author, therapist, counselor
Years active1980-present
Known forTherapist; led to surrender of fugitive Katherine Power
Children5

Linda Carroll (born 1944) is an American author and a marriage and family therapist.[1] Carroll received national attention in 1993 when she convinced Katherine Ann Power, a patient of hers at the time, to turn herself into authorities after spending twenty-three years eluding police for a bank robbery and murder she had been involved in.[2] Carroll primarily works as a relationship counselor, but also specializes in issues pertinent to LGBT clients.[3]

Carroll is the mother of singer and musician Courtney Love, and the daughter of author Paula Fox.

Biography

Linda was born to Paula Fox when she was 20,[4] the result of a short-lived relationship. [5] Paula lived under the roof of acting coach Stella Adler at the time, as did then unknown actor Marlon Brando. There have been persistent rumours that Brando fathered the child, although neither Brando nor Fox ever commented on these and Carroll's paternity remains unknown.[6] Given the tumultuous relationship with Paula's own biological parents, she gave the child up for adoption. Linda was adopted into a Catholic family of part Italian descent, and was raised in Pacific Heights by Jack and Louella Risi. Linda took her surname after her friend Judy Carroll, after Judy's death.[4] Linda graduated from high school in 1961. She married writer and one time-Grateful Dead manager Hank Harrison in Reno,[4] and gave birth to Courtney Love in 1964. Within years of Courtney's birth, both Carroll's adoptive parents died. Also, Carroll's three-month-old baby died of a heart defect. [7] [8] She divorced Harrison in 1969, alleging that he had given Love LSD, and brought her daughter with her to Marcola, Oregon. She had two other daughters with the second husband, and settled on a hippie commune in Oregon. She divorced and married Frank Rodriguez. [9]

After finishing her bachelors degree in Oregon in the 1970s, she moved to New Zealand. She returned to Oregon in the 1980s and received a masters in counseling, and began practicing as a therapist. In the nineties, she and her veterinarian husband, Tim Barraud, began to teach a couples course based on the Imago work of Harville Hendrix, the PAIRS training of Dr. Lori Gordon, and their own insights, study, and practices.

As an adult, Carroll found that her birth mother is the novelist Paula Fox (her grandmother was screenwriter Elsie Fox).[7] In 2006, her memoir Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love, was published by Doubleday.[10] Carroll has not spoken to her daughter in years and remains estranged. Love's agent called the book a work of "vicious and greedy fiction", and said, "We find it astonishing that any mother should write such a book. This is especially true in the case of Ms Carroll, who abandoned her daughter when she was a seven-year-old and whom Ms Love thus barely knows at all."[4][7] In 2008, Remember Who You Are was published by Conari Press, and she is currently working on a book about relationships entitled Love Cycles. [11]

As of 2014, Carroll has five children and ten grandchildren.[12]

References

  1. ^ Linda Carroll's background and family
  2. ^ Egan, Timothy (1993-09-17). "A Conscience Haunted by a Radical's Crime". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  3. ^ "Linda Carroll-Barraud". Therapists.about.com. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
  4. ^ a b c d Neva Chonin (February 5, 2006). "MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS / Courtney Love's mom, Linda Carroll, reflects on her daughter and her own birth mother". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  5. ^ Acocella, Joan (May 16, 2011). "From Bad Beginnings". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2012-03-01.
  6. ^ Linda Carroll's paternity
  7. ^ a b c Gaby Wood (28 May 2006). "No love lost for a mother's lost love". Independent Woman. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  8. ^ Carroll, Linda (2005). Her Mother's Daughter: A Memoir of the Mother I Never Knew and of My Daughter, Courtney Love. Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-51247-3.
  9. ^ Jung, K Elan (2010). Sexual Trauma: A Challenge Not Insanity. The Hudson Press. pp. 188–189. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
  10. ^ "Courtney Love's mom denies paper's story". USA Today. 2003-08-24. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  11. ^ Jon Spayde (May 2012). "The Same Old Argument". Experience Life. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
  12. ^ Linda Carroll children and grandchildren

External links

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