About Linda
Linda Spalding is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with three decades of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and listens closely, helping clients name their concerns and set practical goals. Her direct, steady manner aims to make hard conversations easier to begin.
Linda has worked in many settings over her career, including independent practice, residential treatment, intensive outpatient, and partial hospital programs.
Background and approach
That range gave her experience with mood disorders, trauma, and addictive behaviors, and with people navigating career or relationship strain. Her work has included individual and group formats and spans nonprofit and corporate environments. She uses a mix of methods rather than a single approach.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps her clients spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. Motivational Interviewing supports people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change. Solution-Focused Therapy narrows attention to concrete steps that move life forward.
Sessions focus on practical strategies and clear next steps. Linda helps people build coping skills for anxiety, work through grief, reduce reliance on substances or behaviors, and improve communication in close relationships. She also addresses issues like ADHD, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns.
Based in Florida, she offers work that balances empathy with straightforward guidance. New clients start by deciding on goals, and then together they craft an approach that fits each person’s life and schedule.
How Linda’s Methods Work Online
Linda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people make concrete changes. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with life changes. Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve mixed feelings about change and build momentum toward healthier choices.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Linda works with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and lifestyle. She adjusts tools and pace over time so treatment stays relevant to what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy makes regular work on these goals easier to maintain. Video calls let the therapist and client use face-to-face interaction for skill practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions offer a lower-bandwidth option for check-ins and brief work. Live chat and text-based messaging enable short, focused exchanges for coaching, homework support, and quick problem-solving between appointments. Together, these formats provide flexibility to fit sessions into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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