About Linda
Linda Gonzalez is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of counseling experience. She works in Illinois and speaks English. Linda takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach so people feel heard and involved from the first visit.
She prefers to build on a person's strengths and practical skills. Sessions blend talk therapy with simple, everyday mindfulness and behavior-focused tools. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier moods, and better day-to-day coping.
How Linda works
Linda helps with stress, anxiety, and low self-esteem. She also supports people facing career shifts, grief, sleeping problems, anger, bipolar and depressive challenges, and ADHD. She has experience with concerns tied to caregiving, aging, chronic illness, and end-of-life transitions.
Additionally, she addresses relationship and communication problems, issues around abandonment and attachment, control and emptiness, and challenges faced by first responders and veterans. Coaching-style work and help finding life purpose are part of her practice too. Her style is practical and warm.
Sessions focus on what is useful right now and on building skills for the future. Linda works with each person to set clear goals and simple steps to meet them. To begin, people choose a subscription plan, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on availability.
Sessions are offered through video, phone, chat, or text messaging.
Linda lists 7 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
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel understood and guides the conversation around their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches specific techniques to change them, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication, useful for strong mood swings and anger.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Linda will discuss your needs, preferences, and goals and recommend techniques that fit. The decision is collaborative and can shift over time as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper discussion. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is low or when a quieter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing out thoughts feels more manageable. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules and to use learned skills in real time.
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