About Linda
Linda Platt is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Arizona who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, coping with addictions, grief, parenting strain, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT issues.
Linda believes clients bring strengths and insight to the work and treats taking a first step toward therapy as a meaningful act of courage. In sessions she keeps the focus practical and down-to-earth.
Background and approach
Conversations are guided by what matters most to the client. She listens for personal strengths and builds on what's already working in day-to-day life. Linda uses a mix of approaches to match the need at hand.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused methods guide conversations about connection, trust, and how early bonds affect current relationships. Mindfulness practices are added when clients want tools to reduce stress and stay present.
The work is collaborative - goals are set together and progress is checked along the way. Her clients can expect straight talk, empathy, and practical strategies to try between sessions. With nine years of clinical experience, Linda draws on a variety of techniques to suit different issues.
She also brings attention to less typical concerns such as adoption and foster care, aging issues, autism-related needs, chronic illness, and codependency. The overall aim is clearer coping, better emotional regulation, and stronger personal agency.
How therapy approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and emotional patterns; it helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, and repeating relationship cycles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing small changes to improve mood and daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift painful emotional responses so they can form healthier bonds and communicate more clearly.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, history, and what feels most comfortable, and will suggest methods to try. Clients and the therapist check in regularly and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, ongoing support between meetings, or a way to work without being on camera. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the focus on progress and practical coping skills.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English