About Linda
Linda Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 39 years of experience. She began her career in education, teaching at secondary and post-secondary levels, and later moved into counseling and student development leadership. Her background shapes a teaching-oriented approach to counseling that focuses on building practical skills for daily life.
She helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and eating concerns. She also supports those navigating career questions, self-esteem struggles, relationship and intimacy issues, and concerns related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Background and approach
Work in sessions centers on clear goals and steady progress. Linda uses a client-centered frame where the person seeking help steers the work. She describes the process like riding a tandem bicycle - the client guides and she offers support, information, and encouragement.
Clients set the direction and decide what feels useful. Her toolbox includes cognitive behavioral strategies and motivational interviewing to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Sessions also include practical skill building aimed at self-efficacy and decision making.
Techniques are adapted to each person’s needs rather than applied rigidly. Linda draws on experience as a counselor, counseling services director, and dean of student development to explain options clearly. She focuses on helping people define what they want to change, set achievable steps, and practice new approaches between meetings.
The pace and style are collaborative and goal-oriented.
How Linda’s Approaches Work Online
Linda uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s priorities. This means the client leads conversations and choices while the therapist listens, reflects, and offers support. It fits situations where people want to be heard and make their own decisions.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which links thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with alternatives that lead to different behaviors. This approach is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns.
Motivational Interviewing appears when someone is weighing change. It uses brief, focused conversations to strengthen motivation and clarify next steps. That style is helpful for goals like changing eating behavior, improving self-care, or exploring career moves.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust as work progresses. This collaborative stance means techniques are shaped by the client’s needs, preferences, and pace.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send brief updates, ask questions between sessions, or check in when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep regular momentum toward goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 39 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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