About Linda
Linda Giles helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and family concerns, and challenges like addiction, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She works with issues ranging from parenting and intimacy to work stress and coping with life changes. She practices with a practical, down-to-earth manner and aims to make first steps less daunting.
With 28 years in practice, Linda brings long experience as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC).
Background and approach
She holds licensure in Virginia and in North Carolina and has supported a wide range of concerns including PTSD, bipolar mood disorders, social anxiety, and seasonal affective disorder. Her approach is flexible and person-focused. She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities and on cognitive-behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits.
She also uses psychodynamic and trauma-focused concepts when looking at deeper patterns and past experiences that affect present life. Sessions emphasize simple, teachable skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Linda offers calm, practical tools for regulating intense feelings and for making small, steady changes that add up over time.
She provides services from Virginia in English. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and priorities and creates space for people to talk through what matters most. It helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem issues, and decisions about life changes.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It teaches concrete strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress like noticing unhelpful thoughts and practicing small behavior changes.
Trauma-focused methods address the impact of upsetting events and help reduce overwhelming reactions by teaching grounding and regulation skills and by working through trauma responses at a manageable pace.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then tailor methods over time so sessions match the client’s needs and comfort level.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face-to-face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can provide quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on progress and useful skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English