Dr. Judith Landau

Dr. Judith Landau, child, family and community psychiatrist was formerly Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the University of Rochester. She is currently President of Linking Human Systems, LLC, a global research, training and consulting business, and LINC Foundation, Inc., an international not-for-profit company focused on helping individuals, families, and communities harness their resilience to enhance performance in their current life situations or to recover from trauma. Dr. Landau serves as Senior Consultant to the International Trauma Studies Program of Columbia University, New York, New York. She is Director of the Recovery Resource Center in Boulder and Vail, CO, and is a faculty member of the Recovery Resource Center in Albany, New York and Denver, Colorado.

Dr. Landau has worked with diverse ethnic, cultural and spiritual groups, bridging the bio-psycho-socio-cultural-spiritual ecosystem and developing Transitional Family Therapy, "Link" Therapy, the ARISE Intervention, Link Individual Family Empowerment (LIFE), and the LINC Model of Community Resilience (mobilizing natural change agents in the service of physical, psychological and spiritual health across families and communities.

As a Senior Fulbright Scholar, she consulted to the Government of Argentina on accessing community-wide resilience in the treatment and prevention of violence, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS that resulted from serious political and economic upheaval. The community programs initiated in Argentina in 1990 are still self-sustaining. She has worked with refugees and trauma survivors from many countries, during and after natural and human-made disasters, consulting in the design of health and mental health delivery systems that build entirely on the natural healing elements and extended family strengths of communities. She serves as Consultant on Addiction to the Kosovo Government where, since the war, she has collaborated on designing multidisciplinary, collaborative family-focused, community-based mental health programs. She served as consultant to the Hungarian Departments of Health, Social Services, and Education on developing a national prevention and intervention service. In Taiwan, following major earthquakes and floods, Dr. Landau consulted on the prevention of suicide and depression. She served on the Advisory Committee to the New York State Commissioner of Mental Health on the Mental Health of Refugees and Cultural Transition, and consulted to the Commissioner of Health for New York City on rebuilding healthy communities in the wake of September 11th, 2001.

For over 30 years Dr. Landau has worked with substance abusers and their families, directing programs that interface with 12-step programs, recovery, community and mental health service. She served on New York State’s Office of Addiction and Substance Abuse Services Commissioner’s Committee for developing the Professional Addiction Education Center. A member of the Planning Committee of the Addiction Technology and Transfer Center, she chaired the Subcommittee on Supervision and Clinical Sites. She has designed and taught numerous courses on addiction and the family around the world.

Dr. Landau has lectured on five continents, presented at over 350 international conferences, taught students from over ninety countries, She has served on numerous Editorial Boards, for example, Family Process, Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, and Sistemas Familiares. Her awards include Fellow of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) and recipient of its Outstanding Contribution to Family Therapy award; Senior Fulbright Scholar; Fellow of the American Orthopsychiatric Association; Diplomate and Fellow of the American Board of Medical Psychotherapists; Charter Fellow of the National Council on Family Relations; Diplomate of the American Board of Psychotherapists in Marriage and Family Therapy and in Child Therapy; Honorary Life Member of Asociacion Sistemica de Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of the South African Association of Marital and Family Therapy. She was a founding member of the US Advisory Committee of the American Marital and Family Therapy Regulatory Boards and the first National President of the South African Association of Marital and Family Therapy. She also served as a member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) Committee on the Family.

Dr. Landau has been widely interviewed and quoted in national and international magazines and newspapers including Gente, Redbook, Time, Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and the Psychotherapy Networker, and has made numerous television appearances around the world. She has been selected to be included in several Marquis Who's Who publications.