About Lynda
Dr. Lynda Cokuslu is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and trauma.
Dr. Cokuslu aims to create a calm, respectful space for people to talk about hard things and start making changes. Her work often centers on practical skills and steady emotional support.
She uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors.
How Lynda works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when strong emotions make daily life harder. Dr. Cokuslu pays attention to how relationships, identity, and life stages affect wellbeing.
She helps with parenting strain, career stress, grief, and issues like body image or eating concerns. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption and foster care questions, or significant life transitions. Sessions move at an individual pace.
She encourages clear, practical goals and small experiments between meetings. People can expect straightforward talk, reflections on what’s getting in the way, and step-by-step tools to use in everyday life. Her style is warm and direct.
She values honesty, patience, and collaboration while helping people rebuild confidence and steadiness. Dr. Cokuslu offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging as ways to connect.
Lynda lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Lynda works with
The areas below are the ones Lynda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and behavior that cause distress and then practicing concrete strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotional responses and relationship patterns to help people build stronger connections and manage intense feelings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they pick methods and adjust them over time so the work fits each person’s needs.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make contact easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and practicing communication. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow short, flexible check-ins and support between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other demands.
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