About Linda
Linda Martin works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or major life changes. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida with more than three decades of experience. Her style is straightforward and calm, aimed at helping people feel more steady day to day.
In sessions she listens first and then helps clients sort what matters most. Conversations focus on practical steps to reduce panic, improve sleep, manage worry, and handle the aftereffects of trauma.
Background and approach
She also helps people who feel isolated, stuck, or burned out by caregiving duties. Linda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. She explains options plainly and adapts methods to each person’s needs instead of using the same plan for everyone.
Clients can expect clear goals, regular check-ins, and tools to practice between sessions. After many years in the field she has supported people with phobias, panic attacks, mood disorders, and the complicated emotions that follow loss or upheaval. She also works with concerns such as codependency, communication problems, guilt, and control issues.
Sessions are offered in English and she sees clients across Florida. International clients are also accepted, and she uses a mix of phone, video, live chat, and text messaging to stay connected. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
How Linda brings evidence-based methods to online care
Linda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety, depression, and trauma. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills - breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure techniques - to reduce panic and phobic reactions and to increase daily functioning. Another approach emphasizes processing traumatic memories in ways that reduce distress and help people feel more able to move forward; work is paced to match each person’s readiness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review symptoms, goals, and preferences with each person and recommend methods that fit their situation. Plans are revisited regularly so techniques can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to schedule appointments around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English