About Linda
Linda Spalding is a licensed mental health counselor with three decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, addiction, and relationship strain. She offers practical, direct support and aims to make conversations feel clear and manageable. Linda speaks plainly and focuses on small steps that fit into everyday life.
Her background includes work in independent practice, residential settings, intensive outpatient programs, and partial hospital programs. That range means she has seen many presentations of mood disorders, trauma, and addiction.
How Linda works
She has also provided services for active duty military and veterans and has worked in both corporate and nonprofit environments. Linda draws from a handful of approaches rather than relying on a single method. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful patterns, motivational interviewing to build readiness for change, and solution-focused work to set achievable goals.
Those tools get adapted to each person’s needs and pace. Sessions emphasize collaboration and practical skills. Linda helps people identify small behavior changes, practice new ways of communicating, and develop coping plans for intense moments.
She also supports people dealing with grief, intimacy-related issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body-image concerns, and challenges tied to sexual expression such as BDSM and kink. Linda holds the credential LMHC, licensed in Florida. She offers services in English and accepts international clients.
Online and remote session formats are available to fit different schedules and circumstances.
Linda lists 6 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How Linda’s Approaches Work Online
Linda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression. Motivational interviewing helps people clarify their reasons for change and build momentum by setting achievable goals.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Linda will talk through options and tailor methods to the client’s goals, preferences, and needs. The process is collaborative so techniques are adjusted as progress is made or goals evolve.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging provide quick check-ins and ongoing support between appointments.
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