About Linda
Linda Acosta-Smith helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She guides clients who struggle with mood changes, addictive behaviors, grief, and challenges related to parenting or career. Linda speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Linda has worked in counseling for 30 years. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in Texas. Over her career she has supported people dealing with trauma and abuse, bipolar conditions, and chronic pain or illness.
How Linda works
She also addresses issues such as codependency, communication problems, and isolation. Her style blends listening with clear tools. She uses client-centered methods to understand each person's goals.
Cognitive behavioral techniques help change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns, and dialectical skills teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Linda also incorporates mindfulness and motivational interviewing to build motivation and present-moment coping. Sessions focus on concrete skills like managing worry, reducing substance use, improving self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
She pays attention to how relationships and family roles affect daily life. Clients can expect a warm, nonjudgmental space that respects personal values, including spiritual beliefs when relevant. Linda aims to help people build resilience and practical routines that support long-term healing.
Her work highlights small, doable changes that add up over time.
Linda lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Linda works with
The areas below are the ones Linda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Linda blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people make clear, everyday changes. Client-centered therapy starts with listening closely and shaping sessions around each person's goals, which is useful when someone needs support sorting priorities or values. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, and it can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with mood changes.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. Those skills teach practical steps for managing intense feelings and reducing impulsive reactions, which can be helpful for anger, addiction challenges, or ongoing mood instability.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and recommend techniques that fit the situation. Together they adjust methods over time so sessions stay useful and aligned with what the person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work on these approaches. Video calls let people practice skills in real time and maintain visual connection. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short updates, coaching between sessions, or a written way to reflect on progress. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while applying the same therapeutic tools used in office sessions.
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