About Linda
Linda Spalding is a licensed mental health counselor with three decades of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and other life changes in a straightforward, practical way. She speaks English and offers sessions to people in Florida and beyond.
Linda draws on many approaches so she can tailor care to each person. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and shift behavior. She uses mindfulness methods to help people reduce reactivity and stay grounded in the present.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is part of her work with people who want to change habits or tackle addiction. That approach emphasizes the client’s own goals and builds momentum for small steps. She also uses solution-focused and narrative strategies to highlight strengths and rewrite stories that keep people stuck.
Her background includes work in independent practice, residential settings, intensive outpatient programs, and partial hospital programs. That range gives her experience with diverse challenges and treatment formats. She has spent much of her career supporting people through trauma, mood disorders, and substance and process addictions.
In sessions Linda keeps things practical and collaborative. She avoids a one-size-fits-all plan and instead helps people try strategies that fit their life. People who want clear, experienced guidance for real problems often appreciate her direct, steady style.
How Linda Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Linda often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify patterns of thinking and behavior that fuel problems. CBT focuses on practical exercises and small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits.She also draws on motivational interviewing when a person wants to make a change but feels stuck. That approach centers the client’s own goals and helps build motivation for achievable steps. Solution-focused work complements this by zeroing in on strengths and small wins people can use right away.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that seem most likely to fit. That collaborative process lets the plan evolve as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation when interaction matters most. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style contact between longer sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English