About Linda
Linda Goldsmith is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She guides clients through relationship concerns, grief, sleep troubles, parenting strain, and major life changes. Linda communicates plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use day to day.
With 25 years of experience, Linda blends client-centered care with evidence-based strategies. She listens for patterns from past experiences that affect current choices. Then she works with each person to build coping skills, improve communication, and set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Her sessions often include straightforward cognitive tools to change unhelpful thinking. She also uses techniques that teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming. For relationship concerns she draws on approaches aimed at improving connection and repair.
Linda has practiced in Florida and holds the credential LMHC, as well as LCPC. She offers a calm, steady presence and focuses on small, actionable steps people can try between sessions. Her aim is to help people feel more in control of their thoughts and reactions.
People who reach out can expect a collaborative, paced process. Linda helps identify what’s working and what isn’t, then adjusts the plan to match each person’s needs. Sessions emphasize skills you can use right away to reduce distress and increase resilience.
How Linda’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The aim is to create a space where clients can talk through concerns and decide what changes feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds tools for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance when reactions feel overwhelming.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Linda will work with each person to identify goals and try methods that match those goals. She adjusts the plan over time so techniques fit the client’s needs, preferences, and day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill demonstrations and relationship work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy routine and to continue work between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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