Dr. Willis designed the Balanced Weigh program and has been teaching it for 19 years in Southern Oregon.  She received a Doctoral Degree in Health Education and was Professor of Health and Physical Education at Eastern Oregon State University for 11 years, teaching nutrition and exercise physiology.  She moved to Grants Pass in 1986 and worked in the hospital system in the field of Worksite Health Promotion for 15 years.  She started her private practice in 2001.

Linda has given hundreds of workshops and presentations throughout the state and has written numerous articles on lifestyle behavior.  With humor, common sense and the facts, she sorts through the compost heap of misinformation and offers a lifestyle that has withstood the test of time.