About Linda
Linda Acosta-Smith is a licensed therapist with 30 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She works with individuals facing depression, trauma, grief, addictions, and changes in life. Her style is warm and respectful, and she pays attention to each person’s story.
She focuses on practical ways to build self-love and better communication. Linda supports people dealing with mood disorders, social isolation, and the strains of parenting or career shifts.
Background and approach
She also helps people living with chronic pain, illness, or disability find ways to manage daily life. Linda uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Sessions often involve setting clear goals, practicing new skills, and finding steps that feel achievable.
Clients can expect straightforward conversations and tools they can use between meetings. Her work is influenced by an understanding of how relationships and health affect emotional wellbeing. She is faith-sensitive and respects each person’s spiritual perspective as part of care when it matters to them.
That makes her approach adaptable for many kinds of backgrounds. Over three decades, Linda has supported people through grief, trauma, substance concerns, and self-esteem struggles. She emphasizes building resilience and coping strategies that help people move forward.
The overall aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's unique experience, helping people feel heard and guiding them toward their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills for intense feelings and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative decision can shift over time as different skills and strategies are tried and evaluated together.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals in formats that fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when video is difficult, and live chat or text messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, caregiving, or medical schedules while focusing on practical coping and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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