About Linda
Linda Christ is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of clinical experience in Louisiana. She helps people facing addiction, depression, trauma and relationship struggles. Parents reading this will find direct, plain language and a calm tone.
She creates a steady, non-judgmental space for people to talk through painful memories and current problems. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. Linda helps clients build coping skills and notice patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
Her work addresses many related issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, and codependency. She also supports people coping with chronic illness, cancer, aging concerns, and the fallout from divorce or separation. Substance use and domestic violence are part of her clinical focus as well.
Linda uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide recovery and change. She aims to match methods to each person’s needs rather than using a single rigid approach. The emphasis is on what helps a person feel safer, more able to manage emotions, and clearer about next steps.
When people begin, they usually complete a short questionnaire to set goals and decide which tools to try first. Progress is tracked across sessions, and plans adjust as needed. Her style is warm, steady, and practical, designed to help people make real changes in daily life.
Evidence-based approaches for online recovery and healing
Linda draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear goals and real-world skills. One common method emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce depression and improve coping. This approach teaches concrete strategies for mood management and problem solving that can be practiced between sessions.Another focus involves trauma-informed work that helps people process painful experiences at a pace that feels manageable. This generally includes grounding and emotion-regulation tools, plus steps to reduce the ways traumatic memories disrupt daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to pick methods that fit the person’s goals, history, and comfort level, and they adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera time is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can support quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity while working toward change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Connecticut
- Languages
- English