Mimi Lind, LCSW is a psychotherapist who specializes in the dynamics of domestic violence/intimate partner violence. She received her master’s in social work from USC and was trained in domestic violence in 1991 from Emerge Counseling Center. After her move to Los Angeles in 1994, she started the Safe Families Domestic Violence Intervention Program at the Venice Family Clinic. During her 13 years as Director of Behavioral Health and Domestic Violence Intervention at the Venice Family Clinic, she helped integrate domestic violence, harm reduction/substance use disorder, and trauma informed care practices into primary care services. Back in Boston, she worked as an ER social worker of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where she saw the immediate impact of all types of trauma, including domestic violence. She became a psychotherapist specializing in victims of trauma, specifically victims and perpetrators of domestic violence from then on.

Mimi Lind, LCSW is a psychotherapist who specializes in the dynamics of domestic violence/intimate partner violence. She received her master’s in social work from USC and was trained in domestic violence in 1991 from Emerge Counseling Center. After her move to Los Angeles in 1994, she started the Safe Families Domestic Violence Intervention Program at the Venice Family Clinic. During her 13 years as Director of Behavioral Health and Domestic Violence Intervention at the Venice Family Clinic, she helped integrate domestic violence, harm reduction/substance use disorder, and trauma informed care practices into primary care services. Back in Boston, she worked as an ER social worker of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where she saw the immediate impact of all types of trauma, including domestic violence. She became a psychotherapist specializing in victims of trauma, specifically victims and perpetrators of domestic violence from then on.

Ms. Lind has been teaching and consulting about domestic violence/intimate partner violence since 1991, after completing a training program in Boston, where she was an emergency room social worker. Since then she has trained thousands of medical, legal and mental health professionals about treating victim/survivors as well as working with abusers/perpetrators. She incorporates up to date data, trauma informed care principles, and likes to spend a lot of time on questions and challenging situations. Her teaching experience also includes 4 years at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Loyola Marymount University (MFT Art Therapy program) and has been a guest speaker at various graduate schools around Los Angeles.

As part of her efforts in bridging the medical and domestic violence communities, Ms. Lind was the director of the Westside Domestic Violence Network in Los Angeles, which improved community collaboration by bringing together local agency staff of all disciplines.

Ms. Lind lives and works in Hawaii with her school-aged son. She speaks Spanish and French and stays balanced by laughing, watching movies, hiking, traveling and connecting with friends. She stays up much too late watching late night political comedy.

As part of her efforts in bridging the medical and domestic violence communities, Ms. Lind was the director of the Westside Domestic Violence Network in Los Angeles, which improved community collaboration by bringing together local agency staff of all disciplines.

Ms. Lind lives and works in Hawaii with her school-aged son. She speaks Spanish and French and stays balanced by laughing, watching movies, hiking, traveling and connecting with friends. She stays up much too late watching late night political comedy.