Linda Hall

Director and Master Trainer for Artbeat Education Pte Ltd.

Linda was first invited to come to Singapore as a visiting artistic-counselling teacher throughout 2003 and 2004. She then moved here in 2005 to establish Artbeat as a provider of adult personal and professional training, children’s therapeutic playgroups, and counselling/psychotherapy service: all dedicated to the mission ‘Living Arts for the Heart’.

Then in 2008 a second aspect of Artbeat’s work was formed: a Nursing Service with the mission ‘Nursing with Heart’, coordinated by Margaret Glass.

Linda has 30 years of experience working as an educator, psychotherapist/counsellor and consultant.
She also worked for many years as a therapeutic masseuse and Zen Shiatzu practitioner.

Her work is inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy and the healing power of illness. Along with other transpersonal teachings, she works out of Steiner’s picture of the wholistic human being, which includes the non-material aspects of life.

She has a private practice in an Anthroposophic psychotherapy called ‘Psychophonetics’* (the Sounds of the Soul) and also offers counselling for individuals, couples & parents.

She offers Steiner-inspired playgroups for parents and children, and trains parents, teachers, child-care professionals and domestic workers in Creative Discipline methods for engaging children.

She offers adult education and professional development training courses and workshops.

Dedicated to non-intrusive and holistic methods in therapy and education, Linda was featured in a 2007 Singapore Mediacorp Channel 8 documentary ‘No Such Thing As a Bad Kid’.

Linda now feels a lifelong love for and commitment to engaging with SE Asia, the places and its peoples.

• Master of Psychology (Artistic Counselling) IIUE
• Diploma in Philophonetics Counselling & Psychotherapy* (Aust.)
  Adv. Diploma in Holistic Counselling (Aust)
• Bachelor of Arts, (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)
  Dip. Education (UNSW, Sydney)
  Teaching Certificate (NSW state Dept. of Education)
  High School Certificate (Education Dept. NSW, Australia)
• A founding member of the Counselling Association of South Australia

Member of:

• IAPP (International Assoc. of Psychophonetics Practitioners
• AECES (Assoc. for Early Childhood Educators, Singapore)
• AAMA. (Australian Anthroposophical Medicine Assoc.)
  

* Note
Philophonetics Counselling (called Psychophonetics) is a relatively new approach in the field
of psychotherapy and Linda became one of its first practitioners. It pertains to the Artistic/Action
therapies and is client-centered. It was developed out of Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy by
Yehuda Tagar, who trains both practitioners and trainers, and Linda was in one of the first groups
to be trained in 1991.

While verbal-counselling remains a major component, Psychophonetics has the added potential of
making the client's non-verbal content available to the counselling process via ‘artistic elements’ such as visualization, sound and gesture, and then offers a way of addressing this content also applying non-verbal methods. It uses non-verbal and artistic methods to call upon the inherent wisdom of the Body, rather than relying upon intellectual and cognitive processes alone. Another main aspect of the approach is its potential to empower the client not only in relation to their presenting issue, but also in relation to their counselling relationship with the practitioner.

For further information about Psychophonetics, visit www.psychophonetics.com.au