Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Linda Hart.
Hi Dr. Linda, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
I began my journey in the mental health and marriage and family field, due to personal challenges and working in ministry. Relationships are strained and marriages fail because of various factors related to work, life and religious balancing of expectations and responsibilities. At that time, divorce rates were higher in the bible belt than in secular. In the midst of becoming a newly licensed minister, a failing marriage leading to divorce and exposure to family and marriage crisis within ministry work, I knew there was a bigger calling for my life, I returned to school. My education led to degrees in bachelors in Theology, Psychology and eventually graduate school with a masters in Marriage & Family therapy and doctorate in Christian Counseling. My business concepts started as a consultant, providing personal and professional development workshop, seminars and speaker, as I was going through school, at which time Radiant Living was founded.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
No, absolutely not, as no road is every totally smooth. My journey, as with many was filled with challenges, ups and downs. I was a single parent (of five) with three children still at home. There was time I was jobless and experienced financial crisis, on top of daily living and supporting my children.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Dr. Hart is a successful inspirational author, speaker, ordained minister, mediator and licensed marriage & family therapist. She is CEO of Radiant Living Life Solutions, Linda Hart, Consulting, host of Love & Relationship Matters radio show, and contributes to social media platforms, where she blogs and collaborates with community partners on relevant hot topics on love, life, family, and relationship matters. Inspired by personal life struggles and social conditions, she developed a passion for understanding human behavior, perceptions, silent traumas, and teaching principles to overcome adversities and live their best life.
She has devoted herself to spiritual and personal growth, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in both theology and psychology, a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy, and studies toward a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology. Linda is a certified facilitator of Prepare-Enrich and SYMBIS (saving your marriage before it begins) assessments. Upon certification as a family mediator with the Florida Supreme Court, she expanded her expertise to include conflict resolution. Conflict resolution includes the role of counselor/mediator with the Arizona Superior Court, and Family Center of Conciliation Court, working with couples and families for the past 10 years.
Linda provides in-person and online/remote counseling and coaching in the areas of life, relationships, and behavioral care; facilitates divorce recovery groups and children of divorcing family groups, with Divorce Recovery of Tucson Arizona. She became a certified consultant with the Professional Women’s Network of Louisville Kentucky, and has provided services to organizations ranging from corporate and government to non-profits agencies and ministries. Simply put, her mission is to help you become your most brilliant self and experience to experience relationships with yourself and with others.
I am fairly new to the area, as I moved to the Jacksonville area 2022; and opened my practice in end of 2024.
Can you tell us more about what you were like growing up?
I was a somewhat quiet and simple child. We grew up in the country of south Georgia. Then moved to a small town of central Florida. So, life was pretty conservative and sheltered. I am the third of 13 children and grew up with both parents in the home. As you can imagine a family that size experienced chaos and hardship for a number of reasons. First, during my error, the black community experienced hardship for personal reasons, education, economics, social and racial factors., during my childhood Therefore, it was tough. At the age of 16, I was a high school drop out, pregnant and married. By age 21 I had three children and going through separation/divorce.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.radiantlivinglife.com
- Instagram: @Dr.LindaHartHuff
- Facebook: @Dr.LindaHartHuff
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-linda-hart-dcc-ma-lmft-0755bbb
- Youtube: @Dr_LindaHart
- Other: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/1292174
