About Linda
Linda Cousens helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and changes in life direction. She also supports concerns such as trauma and abuse, self-esteem, intimacy-related issues, eating concerns, anger, career questions, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related matters. Linda has worked in counseling for more than two decades and brings practical, straightforward support to sessions.
She uses a mix of approaches chosen to fit each person.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-focused. Linda listens first, then suggests skills and small experiments people can try between meetings. She emphasizes simple tools that make daily life more manageable.
Linda earned a master’s degree in counseling and holds an ME LCPC credential. Over the last 22 years she has worked in varied settings, including more than a decade in independent practice. That background helps her combine clinical ideas with real-life solutions.
In sessions she often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and learning-based strategies to alter behavior. She also uses acceptance and values-based work to help people tolerate strong feelings and make choices that matter to them. Mindfulness and existential questions about meaning can be part of the work when that fits.
People meet with her by video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging. Her style is warm and practical, aimed at helping people make steady progress toward clearer goals.
How Linda's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choosing actions that match what matters most; this can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches concrete steps to change patterns that keep problems going; it is useful for stress, mood, and many everyday difficulties. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication skills which can be helpful for strong emotions and relationship strain.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick or blend methods based on current needs, goals, and personal preferences rather than using one fixed method. Clients are invited to try strategies and then adjust them as needed.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexible ways to meet. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging work well for brief coaching, scheduling, or follow-up between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and maintain consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English