About Linda
Linda Skoug is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Wisconsin with 13 years of experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life changes. Linda aims to make therapy easy to understand and use for everyday problems.
She focuses on clear, practical steps as well as deeper emotional work. Sessions often look at patterns from past relationships to explain current feelings. Linda uses approaches that help with thinking habits, attachment concerns, and guided relaxation techniques.
Background and approach
Clients come for help with stress, grief, self-esteem, addictions, career shifts, parenting strain, and coping with diagnoses such as bipolar disorder or ADHD. She also addresses issues linked to adoption, abandonment, and attachment problems. The emphasis is on recognizing patterns and trying small changes that add up.
Linda keeps sessions collaborative and straightforward. She listens first, then suggests tools people can try between meetings. Work may include talking, practicing new ways of thinking, and short guided exercises.
Her practice offers multiple online formats to fit busy lives. People in Wisconsin can meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Linda helps people set practical goals and adjust therapy style as needs change.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and trust. Online sessions use conversation and reflection to spot those patterns and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more effective.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions this often means identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new perspectives, and using short homework tasks to practice new responses between meetings.
Hypnotherapy involves guided relaxation and focused attention to access helpful mental states for change. When delivered online it can include brief guided exercises that support stress reduction, habit change, or managing difficult memories.
Figuring out which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods together, and adjust over time to match needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps find what feels most useful.
Online formats like video, phone, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit sessions into real life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be shorter check-ins; live chat and text are useful for quick reflections or when writing feels easier. These options help people maintain continuity of care while balancing work, school, and family obligations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English