About Linda
Linda Richards is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 21 years in the mental health field. She focuses on helping people move past the habits and patterns that keep them stuck. Her work centers on trauma and the ways it shows up as anxiety, depression, pain, or trouble managing day-to-day life.
She began work in trauma-focused settings in 1997 and has spent decades learning how traumatic experiences shape behavior and emotion.
How Linda works
Linda helps people recognize how old wounds influence current reactions. She uses practical methods to reduce distress and restore balance. Sessions often include body-centered techniques and attention to how feelings live in the body.
She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas to make sense of recurring patterns. The goal is to help clients feel steadier and more able to choose responses rather than react on autopilot. Linda works with adults and children and helps with a wide range of concerns.
These include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, and career stress. She also focuses on problems that often stem from early attachment, abandonment, or family of origin difficulties. Her style is straightforward and compassionate.
She encourages curiosity about the self and invites clients to try different tools in session. Linda supports people as they practice new ways of coping and notice real change over time.
Linda lists 8 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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shaped current connections and sense of safety; it helps people understand patterns in relationships and learn new ways of relating. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, uses guided bilateral stimulation while recalling distressing memories to reduce the emotional charge of those memories and ease trauma symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to help manage anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and overwhelming emotion.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Linda will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She often blends approaches and adjusts techniques as clients learn what helps them feel steadier and more effective in daily life.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make scheduling more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or supplemental contact between longer sessions.
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