About Linda
Linda Sitomer is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of practice in California. She focuses on helping people facing stress and anxiety, coping with addictions, and managing grief and loss. She also addresses concerns related to LGBT matters, workplace pressures, and women's issues.
Linda aims to make first steps toward change feel manageable and hopeful. Her style is straightforward and calm. She creates an open space where clients can say what they think and feel without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical coping skills and clearer thinking about next steps. Linda supports people who are ready to try small changes that add up over time. With decades of experience, Linda draws on methods shown to help reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning.
She works with people navigating divorce or separation, persistent guilt and shame, social anxiety and phobia, and isolation or loneliness. She pays attention to the concrete problems that cause stress at home and work. Sessions move at a pace chosen by the client.
Linda helps people set short-term goals and tracks progress in simple, measurable ways. The work can include learning new ways to manage cravings, practicing steps to rejoin social life, or coming to terms with significant losses. Linda provides services in English to residents of California.
She offers a balanced mix of practical strategies and supportive conversation to help people regain calm and keep moving forward.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many therapists use cognitive-behavioral techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce worry and improve day-to-day functioning. These techniques are often taught with clear steps and practice exercises you can use between sessions.Behavioral strategies such as exposure and activity scheduling help with avoidance, social anxiety, and low mood. These approaches encourage small, doable steps that reduce fear and increase engagement in life. They work well when progress is tracked and adjusted over time.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. That collaborative process guides which methods are emphasized and how sessions are structured.
Online therapy provides flexibility. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face connection from different locations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, short reflections, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different ways of communicating with a licensed professional.
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- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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