Linda Perlman Gordon, LCSW-C, M.Ed., is a clinical social worker with a private psychotherapy practice in the Washington, DC area working with individuals and families with a special expertise in family communication and divorce. Linda was voted one of the best mental health professionals in the Washington, DC Metro area in the July 2009 issue of Washingtonian Magazine. She is a member of the DC Academy of Collaborative Professionals in her capacity as a mental health provider in collaborative divorce. She is also a member of the Council of Contemporary Families, a non-profit consisting of noted family researchers and clinicians dedicated to enhancing the national conversation about issues important to today’s families. Linda is the co-author of How to Connect With Your iTeen: A Parenting Road Map (McGraw-Hill, 2015), Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the New Intimacy of today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship (Berkley Books, 2009), Mom, Can I Move Back in with You? A Survival Guide for Parents of Twentysomethings (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2004), Why Boys Don’t Talk and Why It Matters: A Parent’s Survival Guide to Connecting with Your Teen (McGraw-Hill, 2005), and Why Girls Talk and What They Are Really Saying: A Parent’s Survival Guide to Connecting with Your Teen (McGraw-Hill, 2005). As a result of this work, she has spoken to parent groups and educators nationally, and has been the subject of numerous interviews and articles in print, radio, and television in the United States and Canada. Selected media appearances and interviews include, The Today Show, CNN, MSNBC, ABC “World News Now,” Oprah.com, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Washington Post. She was invited to participate at the 2001 White House Conference on Teenagers.