About Linda
Linda Goldsmith is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. She brings 25 years of experience and a calm, straightforward approach that many find grounding when life feels overwhelming. She focuses on clear, practical steps rather than jargon.
Sessions often center on identifying patterns, learning coping skills, and making small changes that add up. Linda aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling work, family, or health concerns.
Background and approach
Linda uses client-centered work to build a trusting space where clients lead the conversation and goals are shaped together. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced ones. For people dealing with intense emotions or crises, she incorporates dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
Her practice addresses a wide range of issues including addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, chronic illness, caregiving strain, sleep problems, and mood disorders like bipolar. She also helps with intimacy concerns, career stress, and feelings of isolation or low self-worth. Linda is licensed as an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) in Florida and holds an LCPC credential from Illinois.
Sessions are conducted in English and offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Linda often combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand how their thoughts affect feelings and actions. Client-centered therapy means the person sets the pace and goals, and the therapist listens closely to what matters most. Cognitive behavioral work involves learning to spot negative thought patterns and practicing new ways of thinking that lead to different behaviors.She may also use elements of dialectical behavior therapy when strong emotions or repeated crises are present. DBT techniques teach concrete skills for managing intense feelings, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse. These approaches are chosen to match the issue at hand and the client's goals.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options, try approaches in session, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan remains practical and relevant to daily life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face work when discussion and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coping reminders, or when writing feels more comfortable than speaking. These formats let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines more easily.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Illinois, New York
- Languages
- English