About Linda
Linda Simon is a licensed clinical social worker with a long career in helping people through hard times. She holds an MA and practices as an LICSW in Massachusetts. Her style is warm and straightforward, and she focuses on making therapy feel practical and useful from the start.
She helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or big life changes. Linda also supports those coping with relationship strain, parenting concerns, intimacy-related questions, and work or career pressures.
How Linda works
She often addresses trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and postpartum or pregnancy-related issues. Her approach blends short-term problem solving with deeper exploration of patterns and history. That means sessions can include concrete steps to try between meetings as well as time to understand where difficult feelings come from.
Linda aims to balance insight with action so people notice improvement quickly. Clients can expect a collaborative process. Linda listens for what matters most, then helps set clear, realistic goals.
She adapts methods to match someone's situation, whether the need is coping strategies, mood management, or sorting out family-of-origin influences. With over 35 years of experience, she draws on a broad background to support aging and geriatric questions, blended family issues, divorce and separation, forgiveness and shame, and finding life purpose. Her work is grounded in practical tools and steady conversational support.
Sessions are conversational and planned to fit each person's pace. Linda offers ways to practice new skills, check progress, and adjust the plan as needs change.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Linda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT often includes short exercises and practical experiments people can use between sessions to reduce worry, lift mood, or manage stress.She also draws on Psychodynamic Therapy to look at how past experiences shape current feelings and relationships. That approach helps people understand repeating patterns and how early attachments or family-of-origin issues influence present choices.
Solution-Focused Therapy is part of her toolkit when quick, goal-oriented change is needed. These sessions focus on small, concrete steps and on what is already working, so progress can be visible within a few meetings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Linda will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then shape the plan together. She adjusts techniques over time so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs, live chat lets someone check in quickly, and text-based messaging supports short updates or follow-ups between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines while still focusing on steady progress.
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