About Linda
Linda Levinson is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of experience supporting people through addiction, trauma, anxiety, and life transitions. She trained in mental health and substance abuse treatment and began her work helping people recover from opioid dependence and co-occurring disorders. Linda blends practical strategies with straightforward conversation to help people make manageable changes.
She commonly helps with depression, stress, ADHD, grief, and relationship concerns. She also addresses process addictions like gambling, gaming, shopping, exercise, and sex and love addictions.
Background and approach
Linda has experience supporting members of the LGBTQIA community and people navigating sexual identity challenges. Her approach focuses on identifying what holds someone back and finding strengths from past experiences. She uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, existential perspectives, and client-centered care.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-focused, not prescriptive. Linda also works with people facing long-term health challenges, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and aging-related concerns. She addresses communication problems, codependency, commitment and intimacy issues, and coping with chronic pain or illness.
When appropriate she incorporates motivational interviewing to build readiness for change. Therapy sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Linda practices in Ohio and holds the LPCC credential.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step will connect a person with available appointments.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that reflect personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying stressful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms. It often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and anger. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and build focus; it pairs well with ACT and CBT for stress and coping.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist will talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients collaborate on the plan and move at a pace that fits their needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coping tools between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English