Sonja Linman^M.Ed, CAS^Community Outreach/Trainer

Sonja Hendrickson-Linman has worked as a youth and family advocate in the Roaring Fork Valley for over thirty years. She is committed to the power and healing found in our personal stories, and uses her teaching, counseling and leadership skills to integrate mental health and wellness into our lives, our families, our schools, our workforce and our community. Most importantly, Sonja truly loves humanity, and has spent her life in public service. Her web of experience includes serving on numerous task forces, non-profit boards, and in volunteer positions as well as serving in political office while working in day to day response with our most vulnerable youth and families.

Sonja has a Bachelors in Education, an MA in Curriculum and Assessment, an Educational Leadership Principal license, and is a certified Colorado Addictions Specialist. Her life work continues to contribute to the evolution of our public education systems as the incubators of our youth, our cultures, and our futures, and she is committed to the training, education and care that affects each of us every day. Sonja recently joined us at the HOPE Center after working for years as an Intervention and Colorado Addiction Specialist in Glenwood Springs, CO. She is as comfortable in Legislative Chambers as on the streets, and would be honored to show up at Dinner Parties, Staff Trainings, or in Integrative Circles as we meet each other where we are…to help each other toward where we would like to be. 

In her quiet time, she hangs out by the creek with her dogs and family, tending to 7th Elder, A Silent Place to Serve the Servants, and where she continues to research and write.