About Linda
Linda Skoug is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Wisconsin with 13 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and related struggles and aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. Linda uses clear language and practical steps so people know what to expect from sessions.
Linda offers an approach that blends attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and hypnotherapy where appropriate. She helps people understand patterns that come from past relationships and teaches ways to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Hypnotherapy is used as an option to address habits, stress, and certain trauma-related difficulties. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Linda listens to what’s most important to each person and then suggests specific tools to try between sessions.
She pays attention to how relationships shape reactions, which can be helpful for anxiety, grief, and changes in life roles. Linda supports people through many concerns including depression, stress, addictions, eating issues, parenting strain, career stress, and managing ADHD symptoms. She also works with issues tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, attachment challenges, and divorce or separation recovery.
Therapy is offered remotely in several formats so people can choose what fits their schedule. Linda encourages small, steady steps and checks in often to see what is working. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on practical change.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support
Linda uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach looks at connection and trust, and it can help with anxiety, attachment issues, and problems that repeat in relationships.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more useful habits. CBT is practical and often helps with anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching skills to manage reactions day to day.
Hypnotherapy is offered as an additional option when appropriate to address habits, stress responses, and certain trauma-related symptoms. It is used alongside talk therapy to support change in thinking and behavior.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Linda discusses goals and preferences with each person, then tries methods that fit those goals. She checks progress and adjusts techniques based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, reflective work, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while still working on anxiety, relationships, and life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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