About Linda
Linda Wiley is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She works from Washington and focuses on practical ways to get through hard moments. Linda speaks plainly and makes space for what matters to each person.
Her approach centers on listening first. She treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, then shapes conversations to fit individual needs. Sessions aim to find strengths you already have and build on them.
Background and approach
Linda uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. She also draws on client-centered methods that keep the person’s goals at the center of the work. Mindfulness techniques are offered to train attention and reduce overwhelm in day-to-day life.
Common concerns she addresses include relationship stress, grief and loss, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include aging and geriatric issues, communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, and social anxiety or phobia. In sessions she helps people set small, doable goals and practices they can use between visits.
The plan is collaborative so it can change as needs shift. The overall aim is steady, manageable progress toward the changes someone wants.
How Linda’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy is focused on the person's goals and experiences. In online sessions this means conversations shape themselves around what matters most to the client, with the therapist following the person's lead and offering reflective feedback to clarify values and choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety going. Online CBT typically uses short exercises, thought records, and behavioral experiments that can be done between sessions to build new habits and reduce symptoms.
Mindfulness therapy trains attention and present-moment awareness to reduce overwhelm. In remote work this often includes guided breathing, brief awareness exercises, and everyday practices to lower reactivity and improve focus.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match techniques to goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good choice when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief updates, written reflection, and flexible scheduling across the week.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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