About Linda
Linda Comeau is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience in Connecticut. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, and life changes. Linda uses straightforward, practical methods so people can make steady changes that fit their lives.
Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance and commitment principles and a family-systems perspective. Sessions emphasize clear communication, healthy boundaries, and realistic expectations.
How Linda works
She pays attention to how relationships and family patterns shape feelings and behavior. Linda worked for many years in education before training in counseling and marital and family therapy. Her background includes outpatient work and experience with inpatient psychiatric care, giving her familiarity with a range of care settings and needs.
She holds a Master of Science in Counseling with a focus on marital and family therapy and a Master of Science in Education. In sessions she aims to be warm, supportive, and strength based. People can expect practical tools for coping, help with improving communication, and strategies to manage intense emotions.
The goal is steady, achievable change rather than quick fixes. Linda often helps people facing parenting struggles in both biological and blended families, career stress, codependency, caregiver strain, and medical or addiction-related family impacts. She also works with issues such as attachment concerns, intimacy-related problems, and compassion fatigue.
Her long experience shapes a calm, steady presence for those ready to make changes.
Linda lists 10 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Linda draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and build concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress. CBT focuses on changing thinking patterns and testing new behaviors in real life. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is also part of her practice and helps people clarify values, accept difficult feelings, and take meaningful action even when emotions are strong. This approach can be useful for life changes, grief, and chronic stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients and therapist work together to choose steps that fit the person's needs and daily life.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work together. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller connection is preferred. Phone sessions can be a straightforward option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief updates, coaching-style feedback, or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a schedule and to keep progress moving forward.
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