About Linda
Linda Sawrey offers calm, straightforward support for people struggling with anxiety, stress and life changes. She focuses on practical steps you can take now. Sessions aim to help you notice what matters, reduce overwhelm, and make choices that fit your life.
Linda blends talking therapies with a long background in nursing to view health more broadly. Her PACFA credential is listed as part of her professional standing. She works online and by phone so people can access help without extra travel.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside attachment-focused ideas and narrative work. That mix lets her tailor sessions to what you need - for example learning skills for panic, exploring how past relationships shape current stress, or rewriting unhelpful self-stories. Clients may expect clear, practical tools alongside space to make sense of strong feelings.
Linda pays attention to how the body and mind interact and brings that into sessions where it helps. She also understands long-term health concerns and carer stress from decades working in healthcare. Linda runs a independent practice from the Gold Coast hinterland and offers remote sessions across Australia.
She aims to help people move from surviving day-to-day to having more energy and purpose in their lives.
How her approaches fit online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and values, then taking small steps towards a life that matters. It can help with anxiety and stress by teaching ways to live alongside difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and offers practical techniques to reduce panic, unhelpful thinking and avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns, which can be useful for relationship stress and feelings of abandonment.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Linda works with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process - she listens to what helps and adapts tools over time so sessions feel relevant and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversation and visual connection while phone can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter notes, between-session check-ins or when typing helps you think. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep working on change between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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