Address: 5480 Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815
Email: drlynnfriedman@comcast.net
To make an appointment with Dr. Lynn Friedman call her.
Phone: (301) 656-9650
Lynn Friedman, Ph.D.
Dr. Lynn Friedman, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, a psychoanalyst and a work-life/organizational (career coach and organizational consultant) consultant, who practices in Chevy Chase (Friendship Heights), Maryland. She is on the associate faculty at Johns Hopkins University graduate school. In the Carey Business School, she teaches, career coaching and organizational development. In the clinical - community counseling program she teaches psychodynamics and therapy. She works with leaders in the corporate and non-profit sectors. She has extensive experience with independent schools and educational organizatins.
Organizational Consultation to School Leaders
In the school and educational arena, she works with school heads, boards, division directors, administrators, faculty groups and parents around issues in change management, governance, mission, professional development, listening/communication skills, understanding developmental milestones, building community, developing character and building healthy schools. She has provided numerous consultations and workshops to schools and educational organizations, including: The Village Community School, NYC, Edmund Burke School, DC, National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), Shady Side Academy, Pittsburgh, PA, The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, PA and an array of other settings. She has written extensively on organizational dynamics in independent schools. More of her work can be found on the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) website and on Dr. Lynn Friedman's own site.
Organizational Consultation for Corporate and Non-profit Leaders
Beyond this, increasingly, Dr. Lynn Friedman, is being consulted by a broader array of corporate and non-profit leaders to build healthy corporate cultures. She works in the areas morale, professional development, management and inclusivity. Her Washington Business Journal column, Corporations on the Couch, is nationally-syndicated and is described below.:
Corporations on the Couch
Your job may not be driving you nuts, but if it is Dr. Lynn Friedman knows how to help. By examining workplace dynamics -- hirings, firings, narcissistic bosses and passive aggressive employees, the office scapegoat and the bosses pet, corporate dysfunction and corporate health, happy employees and miserable ones -- Friedman puts "Corporations on the Couch" in her widely popular column by that name. The psychoanalyst, psychologist, Johns Hopkins faculty member, organizational consultant and executive coach explains, in frank and often funny terms, how corporate cultures and corporate leaders support and sustain (albeit inadvertently) the surprising, strange and truly bizarre array of workplace behaviors. And, like any good therapist, Friedman helps readers to get off the couch, build healthy relationships and end bad ones.
Washington Post Columns
Dr. Lynn Friedman writes for the popular media. Many of her work-life and organizational columns are published on the Washington Post website.
Historical affilations
From 1988-1999, she maintained a private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, consulting to organizations and providing psychotherapy. For nine years (1989-1997), she served as a, systems consultant to Shady Side Academy, in Pennsylvania. In the university, teaching arena, at Carnegie Mellon University, from 1986-1999, she taught within the psychology department and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Policy, Planning & Evaluation, within the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. In these roles, she taught courses in: clinical intervention, psychopathology, program evaluation and program evaluation for educational leaders as well as a summer clinical psychology research internship course, geared toward helping students to identify and pursue their worklife goals. She has developed and implemented a community-oriented, undergraduate clinical internship program.
More information about her clinical practice can be found here.
Corporate and non-profit leaders interested in organizational consultation are invited to contact her directly at: (301) 656-9650.
Academic Affiliations
Johns Hopkins University (Adjunct Faculty)
Carnegie Mellon University, (Adjunct Faculty)
University of Pittsburgh, Ph.D., NIMH predoctoral fellow
Clark University, B.A., magna cum laude
