About Linda
Linda Mather (nee Spencer) is a psychotherapist with 26 years of experience. She is also a trainer, clinical supervisor, and author of counselling and self-help books. Linda practises in the United Kingdom and brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions.
Her background is integrative. That means she uses several approaches and adapts them to each person. She combines cognitive-behavioural ideas with humanistic and psychodynamic thinking, plus solution-focused work and transactional analysis.
How Linda works
Sessions are shaped around what the client needs in the moment. Linda has supported people with a wide range of concerns. These include depression, anxiety, substance misuse and trauma or emotional abuse.
She has also worked with issues such as self-harm, emotional regulation, communication and bullying among children and adolescents. In practice she aims to create a warm, respectful space to talk. Conversations are practical and grounded.
Goals and plans are agreed together so work feels relevant and achievable. Her approach suits people who want clear, down-to-earth support and a therapist who adapts methods to fit them. Linda can help with stress, relationship and intimacy-related difficulties, parenting challenges, grief, eating concerns, bipolar management, career questions and compassion fatigue among other issues.
Sessions can include focused skills work, reflective discussion and short-term problem solving. The emphasis is on helping people take manageable steps toward coping better with life changes and day-to-day strains.
Linda lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Linda's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes by teaching simple practices to focus on what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical tools to change patterns that cause distress. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, compulsive behaviours and many everyday problems.Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Linda will discuss goals and preferences and then shape sessions around what feels most helpful. That might mean trying practical skills first, using reflective conversation, or combining approaches so the work fits the person's situation.
Online therapy offers flexibility and different ways to take part. Video calls let people keep a close, face-to-face rhythm when that suits. Phone sessions can be a good option for shorter check-ins or when a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing contact and shorter reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and busy days, while letting therapists and clients focus on the approaches that work best for the issues at hand.
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