About Linda
Linda Coggan draws on a client-centred approach to help people work through stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be talked about without judgement. Linda uses straightforward language and practical steps so conversations stay clear and focused.
With 18 years of experience, she has supported people facing grief, trauma and abuse, mood difficulties and challenges at work. She also helps with eating and sleeping problems, parenting pressures and the ups and downs of major life changes.
How Linda works
Linda pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues and how those patterns show up in everyday relationships. Her way of working blends attachment-based thinking with cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness practices. That means she looks at how past relationship patterns affect current feelings, notices unhelpful thoughts and tests small changes, and uses simple grounding exercises to reduce overwhelm.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client’s needs. Linda is a BACP Therapist - Registered Member MBACP in the United Kingdom. She offers help for issues such as anger, low self-esteem, career concerns, ADHD and isolation.
Her style is warm, direct and practical, aiming to build useful skills as well as emotional understanding. People who choose Linda typically want clear steps and a steady presence while they work through difficult feelings. She supports adults wanting to feel more resilient, more connected to others, and better able to manage day-to-day stresses.
Linda lists 5 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current feelings and connection. Online work can help people recognise those patterns, practise new ways of relating and reduce anxiety about closeness. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT looks at thoughts, feelings and behaviours and tests small changes to break unhelpful cycles. In remote sessions CBT can involve setting short experiments between meetings and reviewing what worked.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. That collaborative planning means techniques are adjusted if something doesn’t feel like the best fit.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let most of the usual therapeutic work happen face to face without travelling. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer typing, need to fit therapy into a busy day, or want to reflect before replying. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work and family commitments, while working with registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
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