American Family Therapy Academy

Judith Landau, child, family and community neuropsychiatrist, is President of Linking Human Systems, LLC, a global training, research and consulting business, and LINC Foundation, Inc., an international non-profit organization for helping individuals, families, and communities access resilience. Dr. Landau is the Director of the Recovery Resource Center, Boulder, Colorado, and ARISE Intervention NOW. She is also the Past President of the International Association of Family Therapy (IFTA) the Consultant on Addiction to the Kosovo Government, and Senior Consultant to the International Trauma Studies Program, Columbia University. She took early retirement as Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, University of Rochester, to take the LINC protocols for accessing family and community resilience for prevention and recovery from trauma, chronic illness, and addiction to families and communities around the world. As Senior Fulbright Visiting Scholar, she consulted to the Argentine Government on prevention of violence, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Landau has consulted to several other countries including Hungary, Bosnia, South Africa and Taiwan, served on the Advisory Committee to New York State on Refugee Mental Health, consulted to Commissioner of Health for New York City in the wake of September 11th, 2001 and has served as a consultant to NIDA, NIAAA, SAMHSA and CDC.. She is currently a consultant to WHO on strategic planning for the global public health initiative.

Dr. Landau, founder of Transitional Family Therapy, has taught in over 100 countries and published extensively on Transitional Family Therapy and the LINC protocols including LINC Community Resilience (LINC), Link Individual Family Empowerment (LIFE), Invitational Intervention: the ARISE Model, Family Motivation to Change, and related outcome studies. Recipient of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy’s (AAMFT) award for Outstanding Contribution to the Field of Marriage and Family Therapy, she served as Chair of the Commission on Supervision and is a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor. She is a Fellow of NCFR, AAMFT, ABMP, Ortho, and an honorary life member of ASIBA and SAAMFT. She is also a traditional African healer or isangoma.

 An AFTA member since 1980, she was Guest Editor of the AFTA
Newsletter, Summer 1997, Chair of the Live Supervision Interest Group 1986-1991
and has served on the following committees: Conference 1998-99, 2004-05, 2009-2010;
Research 1998-03; Nominating 2003-04, and Human Rights 1998-2005, where from
1998, she served as a member of KFPEC (Kosovo Family Prevention Education
Collaborative).