About Linda
Linda Richards is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with more than two decades in mental health work. She focuses on helping people move past the patterns that keep them stuck. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at everyday problems like anxiety, stress, grief, and the aftermath of trauma.
Linda has been working in trauma-focused settings since 1997. Over the years she has seen how trauma can show up as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or difficulty managing life changes.
Background and approach
She explains these connections in plain language so people can better understand their reactions. Her approach blends body-focused strategies with talk work. Sessions often include grounding and body-awareness techniques alongside memory-processing methods.
She pays attention to how emotions live in the body and uses that information to guide the work. Linda draws on several therapeutic methods to fit each person's needs. She uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing along with attachment-informed and mindfulness practices.
She also brings psychodynamic ideas about early relationships into present-day concerns. Clients who come to her for help with anxiety, burnout, or relationship patterns can expect a collaborative process. Linda helps people name what is happening, try manageable changes, and build skills that support daily life.
Practical coping tools and clearer self-understanding are central goals in her work.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how past bonds affect trust and connection now, and helps people try new ways of relating and feeling safer in relationships.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a memory-focused method used to process distressing memories and reduce their hold. In sessions it pairs focused memory work with guided bilateral stimulation to help lessen the intensity of traumatic memories.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation. These practices help with anxiety, stress, and coping with difficult emotions in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, history, and practical goals and then choose methods together. This collaborative planning helps ensure the techniques fit the person's needs and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video works well for deeper, interactive sessions. Phone can be a lower-bandwidth option or useful for check-ins. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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