About Linda
Linda Dollen is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She offers a steady, down-to-earth approach for people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. Clients come with many concerns including depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and self-esteem questions.
Linda also works with issues like sleep and eating problems, workplace stress, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She listens first and helps people figure out manageable next steps.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and practical. Sessions focus on skills that can be used between meetings and on clear goals that reflect each person's values. Linda draws on several approaches so conversations stay focused and useful rather than theoretical.
She blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance-oriented work and client-centered listening. That combination helps people learn new habits, tolerate hard feelings, and make choices that matter to them. She also uses mindfulness and elements of dialectical thinking when emotion regulation is needed.
Linda practices in Iowa as an IA LMHC - licensed mental health counselor. She works with adults navigating life changes, parenting stresses, relationship problems, and identity concerns. Sessions are offered in English and shaped to each person's pace and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Linda uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them with practical experiments. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, worry, sleep problems, and mood changes. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying values and taking meaningful action even when uncomfortable feelings remain. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by shifting attention toward what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Linda collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches to match what someone needs in a given moment, and she reviews progress so adjustments are straightforward and transparent.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, chat is handy for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates and reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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