About Linda
Linda Richards, LPC, has spent more than two decades helping people move past the habits and reactions that hold them back. She focuses on the patterns that create repeated problems - the actions people later ask themselves about - and helps them understand what lies beneath those reactions.
She has worked in mental health since 1997 with a long history in trauma work. That experience informs how she understands anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and other concerns that often stem from past hurt.
Background and approach
Her approach treats symptoms as pieces of a larger story rather than isolated problems. Sessions are conversational and practical. She uses body-focused work and talk-based methods to help clients notice how emotions show up in the body and daily life.
Clients learn steps to reduce overwhelm, shift reactive behavior, and build clearer choices. Linda uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), mindfulness practices, and attachment-based ideas alongside psychodynamic perspectives and motivational interviewing techniques. These tools are blended to match each person’s needs and goals rather than applied the same way for everyone.
She offers ways to address common concerns such as stress, ADHD, grief, relationship struggles, parenting strains, and burnout. Her style aims to be direct but compassionate, helping people find clearer footing and more reliable ways to move forward.
How her approaches work online and in sessions
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early bonds influence current reactions. It helps people notice relational habits and try new ways of connecting or setting boundaries.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) uses guided attention to help the brain process upsetting memories so they feel less overwhelming. It is often used for trauma symptoms, anxiety, and strong emotional reactions tied to past events.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can be useful for stress, ADHD-related challenges, and mood regulation.
Finding the right combination of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan over time so the work fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
These options help people fit therapy into busy lives, manage symptoms between appointments, and continue work even when travel or schedules get in the way.
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What this therapist 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
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