About Linda
Linda McNellis is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience supporting people through hard times. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, depression, and big life changes. Linda aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk things through and find what helps them move forward.
She uses a mix of practical approaches to help people manage symptoms and build new habits. Sessions often focus on clear, doable steps - for example learning ways to handle strong emotions, improve sleep, or cope with work and caregiver strain.
How Linda works
Linda also addresses relationship and intimacy-related concerns and self-esteem problems in straightforward terms. Her background includes long experience with chronic illness, caregiving stress, aging concerns, and trauma and abuse. She helps people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, codependency, and adjustment after major life events.
Linda brings patience and steady support to complicated situations. Therapy blends evidence-informed techniques such as cognitive behavioral strategies with acceptance-focused and attachment-aware work. The result is a flexible approach tailored to each person’s goals and day-to-day needs.
Linda listens for what matters most and helps clients try new ways of coping. Clients can expect a conversational, goal-oriented style that emphasizes real-life change. Linda’s aim is to help people build skills, regain balance, and make choices that fit their values and priorities.
Linda lists 12 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oregon |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections and emotional responses; it can be useful for intimacy issues and attachment-related worries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to identify goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. This makes therapy a team effort where the client’s preferences and day-to-day needs guide decisions.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and seeing nonverbal cues, phone calls require less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work, and chat or text sessions can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while still working on meaningful changes.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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