About Linda
Linda Henderson is a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has seven years of experience and offers straightforward, compassionate support for people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about next steps. She helps with stress, anxiety, low mood and depression.
She also supports concerns about relationships, self-esteem, work and career pressures, and grief. Practical questions about sleeping, anger, intimacy and parenting are within her remit, as are longer-term issues such as trauma, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related difficulties.
How Linda works
Sessions are tailored to each person. She uses a person-centred approach at the core, then draws on cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness and solution-focused techniques where they fit. The aim is to build self-awareness, identify strengths and find manageable steps forward.
Her background includes work with MIND, MS-UK, primary care in a GP surgery and a community economic development trust in Plymouth. She is also a trained Samaritan and has experience in social prescribing and in signposting to local and national services for mental health and neurodivergence. In practice she offers a calm, down-to-earth way of working.
She will collaborate on goals and move at a pace that feels right. She can provide psychoeducation and simple strategies alongside exploration to help people make sense of what they are experiencing.
Linda lists 4 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centred work puts the person at the heart of sessions. It means the counsellor listens without judgement and follows what matters most to the client, helping people find their own answers and build on personal strengths.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers practical ways to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours, which can help with anxiety, low mood and patterns that get in the way.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels useful, then suggest techniques to try together. Decisions about pace and focus are made collaboratively and can change as work progresses.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls are closest to face-to-face meetings and work well for in-depth conversations. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send messages between calls or use therapy without needing a full appointment slot. Together these options offer flexibility, accessibility and different ways to engage with therapy.
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