About Linda
Linda Giles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 28 years of experience. She offers a calm, down-to-earth approach and aims to make first steps feel manageable for people who are anxious about starting therapy. Her manner is compassionate and practical, focused on helping clients handle everyday struggles.
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and work-related pressures.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with major life changes, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes attention to issues such as abandonment, commitment and communication problems, and caregiver stress. Linda adapts methods to fit each person rather than using a single technique for everyone.
She draws on client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral tools, psychodynamic ideas, solution-focused steps, and trauma-informed strategies. In sessions she teaches straightforward techniques for managing strong emotions and building everyday coping skills. Her background includes long experience across a wide age range, and she has worked in both Virginia and North Carolina as a licensed clinician.
She emphasizes clear, simple skills people can use between sessions and practical planning for real-life situations. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room to address deeper patterns when needed. People who are nervous about starting often find her approach steady and encouraging.
She aims to help clients feel heard, to reduce overwhelm, and to develop tools that fit their daily lives. The focus is on small, doable changes that add up over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Linda uses client-centered listening to create a supportive space where the client's goals guide the work. This approach focuses on understanding each person's experience and building on their strengths to tackle everyday problems.She also uses cognitive-behavioral therapy, which breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into manageable steps. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and mood regulation by teaching concrete techniques people can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Collaboration helps make sessions relevant and practical.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full-session conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief updates, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, school, and family life.
Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she address?
What is her general therapy style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages are used in sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does pricing work for sessions?
How do I begin if I want to work together?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.