About Linda
Linda Benvenuti is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Rhode Island. She brings 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and everyday challenges. Linda emphasizes practical steps and clear goals to make progress feel achievable and steady.
Her approach centers on solution-focused work and positive psychology ideas. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help with motivation, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions such as career shifts and midlife change.
Background and approach
Linda also supports people navigating sleep and eating concerns and issues tied to caregiving and chronic illness. Many people come to her for help with impulsivity, attention concerns like ADHD, isolation, and relationship struggles. She listens for strengths and builds simple routines and skills clients can use between sessions.
Sessions are aimed at small, realistic changes rather than overwhelming plans. Linda has experience working in college and community settings over two decades. That experience informs a practical, down-to-earth style that suits people juggling school, work, and family demands.
She values diversity and seeks to honor each person’s background and priorities. Her work is collaborative and coach-like when helpful, focusing on tools for daily life. If someone wants to improve focus, reduce worry, or find clearer direction at work or home, Linda helps create step-by-step plans and supports follow-through.
How Linda Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Linda often draws on practical, evidence-based methods to guide sessions. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. These approaches are useful for worry, low mood, sleep disturbance, and everyday stress.She also incorporates positive psychology ideas that highlight strengths and small wins. This work centers on building routines, boosting motivation, and improving self-esteem through achievable goals. For attention and impulsivity challenges often linked to ADHD, she uses structured planning and skill-building to improve focus and follow-through.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That teamwork helps shape session pacing, homework, and which tools to try next.
Online therapy brings practical benefits for people with busy lives. Video calls make it possible to meet face-to-face without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat support quick check-ins or ongoing encouragement. This mix of formats lets clients fit sessions into work or school schedules and maintain momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
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