About Linda
Linda Richards is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 21 years in mental health. She helps people untangle the patterns that keep them stuck. Her approach is down-to-earth and focused on practical change.
Linda writes plainly and listens closely so people feel understood and guided toward clearer choices. She has worked in trauma-related care since 1997 and often sees how trauma shows up as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or trouble at work and in relationships.
Background and approach
Linda explains these connections in simple terms and helps people notice the blind spots that shape their behavior. She believes most people carry some form of trauma or neglect, and that recognizing it is the first step toward change. Sessions usually mix body-centered work with talk therapy.
Linda uses techniques that attend to physical responses, memories, and emotional patterns to help reduce reactivity and increase resilience. She also draws on motivational methods to clarify goals and psychodynamic ideas to trace long-standing themes in a person’s life. Her style is collaborative and direct.
Linda helps people name what’s happening, try small experiments, and build new habits that fit daily life. She frames setbacks as information rather than failure, and focuses on practical steps clients can use between sessions. Linda works with concerns such as grief, addiction, parenting strain, LGBTQ issues, ADHD, anger, self-esteem, and midlife transitions.
She provides care from Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English for adults across varying life stages.
How Linda’s Methods Translate to Online Work
Linda often combines Attachment-Based ideas and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - EMDR - in her work. Attachment-based approaches focus on how early relationships shape current reactions and help people build more dependable ways of relating. EMDR uses guided attention and memory processing to reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic memories and related symptoms.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice bodily sensations and patterns without judgment. Mindfulness is useful for anxiety, chronic stress, and helping someone slow down long enough to choose a different response. The therapist will talk with each person about which methods to try and will tailor the mix based on goals, comfort, and how someone responds in early sessions. This decision is collaborative and reviewed as progress unfolds.
Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video sessions let a clinician observe body language and tone. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging can be a shorter check-in, help track progress between meetings, or fit into a busy schedule. These options let people access consistent care from Wisconsin without rearranging their whole day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English