About Linda
Linda Acosta-Smith welcomes people who feel stuck by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. With 30 years of experience, she aims to help clients build self-love, stronger communication, and steadier coping skills.
Linda works from Texas as a licensed counselor holding LPCC and LPC credentials. She uses practical, straightforward methods so people can try new approaches between sessions.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how mood, relationships, and health challenges interact in daily life. Her work often addresses trauma, grief, addiction, and mood disorders. She also supports those dealing with chronic pain, blended family stress, and the guilt or isolation that sometimes follows major life changes.
Linda offers a faith-sensitive stance and respects each person’s spiritual perspective as part of healing. Sessions focus on building resilience, reducing harmful patterns, and planning realistic steps forward. She draws on client-centered conversation, cognitive tools, and mindfulness skills to shape each person’s plan.
Motivational interviewing and elements of dialectical behavior techniques are used when helpful to stay focused on clear goals. People who come to Linda can expect a calm, nonjudgmental environment where practical strategies are emphasized. The emphasis is on clear, achievable changes that fit the client’s life and values.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person’s priorities, helping clients feel heard and guiding decisions based on their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behavioral experiments to reduce distress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Linda will work with clients to match methods to their goals, needs, and daily life. Together they will try approaches, see what helps, and adjust the plan so it fits the client’s preferences and pace.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat lets clients share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage follow-up work, and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Mexico
- Languages
- English