Linda is one of the world's premier personality type authors, trainers, researchers, and workshop leaders.  She is founder (1988) of Interstrength Associates®.  Linda is a well known and leading contributor to the study of individual differences.  She has presented at countless Association for Psychological Type International conferences.  Linda has been licensed in California as a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist (currently inactive status) and an Educational Psychologist.

She is the founder (in 1988) of Interstrength Associates (formerly Temperament Research Institute or TRI), which is the premier source for research, education, applications and training support for the understanding of individual differences and change facilitation using applications of Temperament Theory, Jung’s theory of psychological types and the Berens’ Interaction Styles Model. 

Dr. Berens has conducted extensive qualitative research into the characteristics of the sixteen personality types and the four temperaments. As a result of this research, she has integrated the work of Carl Jung, David Keirsey and a theory of living systems into a methodology for helping people understand themselves and others, placing her and her associates on the leading edge of work in this field. In her most recent work she has refined the popular social styles theory to see patterns of interaction styles. 

She has conducted thousands of training programs in this theory and its applications to counseling, education, career development and organizational development. She has qualified over 2500 people to purchase the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment and is frequently called upon to be the consultant’s consultant.  She has trained and consulted with professionals in a wide range of companies.

Dr. Berens is the author or co-author of multiple books and training materials, including the groundbreaking, web-based self-discovery workshop —Interstrength® CogBooks™, as well as The Sixteen Personality Types (with Dario Nardi); Dynamics of Personality Type; Understanding Yourself and Others – An Introduction to Temperament; Quick Guide to Interaction Styles and Working Remotely (with Susan K. Gerke); and Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types and Teams (with Linda K. Ernst and Melissa A. Smith).

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