About Linda
Linda Giles helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, addiction challenges, and major life changes. She works with issues like anger, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood swings, and compassion fatigue. Linda practices from Virginia and brings 28 years of clinical experience to sessions.
Her approach is down-to-earth and compassionate. She adapts methods to each person, drawing on client-centered ideas and cognitive-behavioral tools alongside psychodynamic and solution-focused work.
How Linda works
Conversations are straightforward and practical, with an emphasis on teaching skills people can use between sessions. Linda often focuses on emotion regulation and simple techniques that reduce overwhelming feelings. She helps people learn cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and solution-focused steps to make immediate changes.
Trauma-focused strategies are used when past events are affecting daily life. Her experience includes a wide range of concerns such as abandonment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, dissociation, guilt and shame, veteran and armed forces issues, post-traumatic stress, seasonal affective disorder, social anxiety and phobia. She also supports people facing aging and geriatric questions and career-related stress.
Linda is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, with licensure in Virginia and North Carolina. Sessions are offered in English and are available through multiple online formats. She aims to make the first step easier by providing a calm, nonjudgmental space to begin work together.
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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How Linda Uses Different Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening with respect and helping people find their own solutions; it is useful when someone needs a calm space to talk through feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety or depression symptoms. Trauma-focused therapy helps process upsetting past events and reduce their impact on current life, using structured approaches to manage triggers and build coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Linda collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and challenges. She may combine elements of these approaches and adjust the plan as progress is made, so the therapy fits the individual's needs.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection helps the therapeutic relationship. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coping reminders, and people who prefer writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity between sessions.
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