About Linda
Linda Gardepe is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 11 years of experience and works from a collaborative, client-centered stance. She aims to make first steps into therapy feel doable and respectful.
Clients can expect straightforward, practical conversations about what is causing distress. Linda uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to look at thoughts and habits that keep problems going.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness practices to teach simple ways to calm the body and steady attention. For people carrying trauma or abuse, she offers approaches that address painful memories and their ongoing effects. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is one of the methods she may use to lessen the intensity of traumatic memories.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are also applied when strong emotions get overwhelming. She works with concerns such as relationships, self-esteem, depression, obsessive thoughts, panic, phobias, and postpartum depression. Additional areas include chronic pain and illness, eating and food-related issues, forgiveness, and career questions.
Linda also supports LGBT-related concerns and blended family issues. Sessions are offered in English and she is licensed in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts as an LCSW and LICSW respectively. Her approach is steady and practical - she helps people set clear goals, try manageable steps, and notice small changes over time.
How Linda's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's goals. The therapist offers empathy, asks questions, and helps people find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses simple exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness therapy teaches attention and breathing practices that reduce reactivity and calm anxiety.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Linda will talk with each person about their needs and goals and then suggest methods that fit. That may mean mixing CBT, mindfulness, and skills-based DBT techniques or using EMDR for trauma when appropriate. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels manageable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and basic skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Shorter check-ins or mood tracking can be handled by live chat or text messaging. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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