About Linda
Linda Dollen is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people through stressful and painful times. She focuses on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and trouble with self-esteem. Linda aims to make therapy feel straightforward and useful for people who are worn out or overwhelmed.
Her sessions are calm and down-to-earth. She listens first and then helps clients decide what to try next. That might include new ways to handle emotions, clearer communication skills, or steps to regain control of daily life.
Background and approach
Linda uses a mix of practical methods that match each person's needs. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and take action. She also brings client-centered skills to keep the work focused on the person's experience.
Over two decades in Iowa have given her experience with many concerns. She has worked with people facing relationship strain, addiction, workplace stress, parenting challenges, trauma, and issues around identity. That background helps her tailor plans that fit real life, not only theory.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and goal-oriented. Linda helps people set concrete steps, try them out, and adjust as they learn. Her style is practical, patient, and respectful of each person's story.
Approaches that translate well to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for worry, low motivation, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. It often includes practical exercises to try between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathic reflection so clients feel understood and can find their own solutions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Linda will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the client's needs and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, and text or chat options can be useful for shorter check-ins or tracking progress between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while still using evidence-informed approaches.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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