About Lynda
Lynda Fenner is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) based in Ohio with 22 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship or family concerns. She values a straightforward, strengths-based approach that centers the person's own goals and experience.
She treats each client as the expert on their life and builds on what already works for them. Sessions aim to clarify problems, develop realistic steps, and practice new ways of coping.
Background and approach
The work is collaborative and paced to the client's needs. Lynda has helped people navigate grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems, parenting stress, and anger. She also has experience with LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, first responder stress, HIV/AIDS, hoarding, and infidelity.
Her broad background allows her to draw on many practical strategies when a situation calls for it. Her style is direct and supportive. She focuses on tools you can use between sessions, such as coping skills, communication strategies, and routines that reduce stress.
Lynda encourages small, manageable changes that add up over time. People meet her to talk through immediate problems and to build steady routines for long-term well-being. She helps set clear goals and checks progress each week to keep work moving forward.
Practical evidence-based approaches for online care
Many tools used in therapy are evidence-based techniques that focus on clear skills and behavior change. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for stress and anxiety management. It teaches breathing and grounding techniques, routines for sleep, and step-by-step plans to face difficult situations. These skills help people reduce symptoms and manage daily pressures.Another frequently used method centers on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life evidence. This approach helps people spot patterns that increase worry or sadness and try small experiments to change those patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and relationship tensions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and is done together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their preferences, and adjust the plan as needed. Collaboration helps make sure techniques match the client's needs and daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a shorter break in a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins, written reflections, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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