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About Linda Chase


Private Practice
Linda Chase, LCSW, CGP is a Psychotherapist and has maintained a private practice in Houston, Texas, since 2001. With more than 15 years experience and training in the mental health field, Ms. Chase works within a broad range of areas including depression, anxiety, grief and loss, parenting and relationship issues.  Her areas of specialty and expertise are eating disorders, gay lesbian issues and PTSD and trauma.  Ms. Chase treats children, adolescents and adults, both males and females.  She provides individual, couples, group and family therapy.  Ms. Chase facilitates an Overcoming Overeating group for Adult Women with emotional overeating and body image issues.  Ms. Chase is a Supervisor approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners for LMSW's seeking LCSW designation.

Faculty and Board Positions
Ms. Chase is a Clinical Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, where she teaches and supervises clinical social work interns and fellows training through Baylor Psychiatry Clinic. Ms. Chase has held the following Officer positions:

Houston Group Psychotherapy Society:
Past President (04/15 to present)
President (04/13 to 04/15)
First Vice President/President Elect (04/11 to 04/13)
Second Vice President (04/09 to 04/11)

Clinical Background and Training
Upon obtaining her Masters in Social Work from the University of Houston's Graduate School of Social Work, Ms. Chase completed a Postgraduate Fellowship program in Clinical Social Work at the Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  In addition, she completed a two-year Fellowship program in the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute's Postgraduate Studies in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with adults.  Ms. Chase also completed a two-year Fellowship position in the Postgraduate Studies in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with children and adolescents.  For two years, Ms Chase worked and trained in the Eating Disorders Program at Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Presentations
Ms Chase has made numerous presentations on various Eating Disorder related topics to colleagues, physicians, students, school counselors and nurses, mothers, college counselors, members of Houston Group Psychotherapy Society, Graduate School of Social Work and Clinical Social Work Interns and Fellows at Baylor Psychiatry Clinic.

Education
M.S.W., Mental Health Concentration (1998)
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Graduate School of Social Work

B.B.A., Accounting (1984)
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

License and Supervisory Status
Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Supervisor approved by the Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners (TSBSWE) for LMSW's seeking LCSW designation.

Professional Memberships

  • Houston Group Psychotherapy Society
  • American Group Psychotherapy Association
  • Houston Psychoanalytic Society
  • Houston Eating Disorders Specialists
  • National Eating Disorders Association
  • National Association for Males with Eating Disorders
  • National Association of Social Workers

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