About Linda
Linda Young is an MD and a Licensed Certified Social Worker practicing in Maryland. She has 25 years of experience helping adults manage stress, addiction, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions. Her style is warm and welcoming and she focuses on building a trusting relationship from the first session.
Linda blends cognitive behavioral ideas with psychodynamic thinking and trauma-focused work. She explains challenges plainly, helps people learn practical skills, and also looks at how past experiences shape current patterns.
How Linda works
Sessions often include talk, reflection, and concrete strategies to change unhelpful thoughts or behaviors. Her background includes many years of direct clinical work in Boston before moving to Maryland in 2013. For much of the last five years she focused on adults in substance abuse treatment programs, supporting people facing depression, anxiety, panic, social anxiety, grief, and co-occurring substance use concerns.
Earlier roles included psychosocial assessments and crisis work in homes, schools, and residential settings. Linda earned a Master of Social Work from Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies and Graphic Design from Simmons College. She uses those combined perspectives to tailor treatment plans around each person’s needs and strengths.
In sessions she aims to educate clients about their specific concerns while helping them develop tools they can use daily. Her approach is collaborative and paced to match each person’s goals and life demands.
Linda lists 3 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCSW-C |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Linda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT sessions often include homework and practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and address addictive behaviors.She also integrates psychodynamic therapy to look at how early relationships and past experiences shape current reactions. This approach helps people understand recurring patterns and the emotional roots of relationship and self-esteem problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. Over time the plan can shift as priorities change or new issues emerge.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have longer, face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions can be quieter and use less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging work for shorter check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options help fit therapy into work, caregiving schedules, and life transitions.
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