About Linda
Linda Skoug is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with 13 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and changes in work or family life. Her work is straightforward and goal-oriented, with attention to what is causing daily struggle and what can help right now.
Clients can expect a calm, respectful space to talk through painful or confusing experiences.
Background and approach
Linda uses practical techniques to address thoughts and behaviors that get in the way of functioning. She also pays attention to attachment history and patterns that affect relationships and intimacy. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral methods with attachment-based ideas and hypnotherapy tools when appropriate.
That means she helps clients notice and change unhelpful thinking, understand how early relationships affect current patterns, and use focused relaxation or suggestion techniques when helpful. Sessions tend to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Linda works with people facing a wide range of concerns, including substance issues, eating and intimacy-related problems, bipolar and mood concerns, and parenting stress.
She also supports those dealing with abandonment, adoption or foster care histories, autism-related concerns, and dissociation. People who want clear strategies plus attention to emotional history often find this style useful. The tone is practical, compassionate, and aimed at improving day-to-day functioning and relationships over time.
How Linda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions with this approach help people notice repeated relationship dynamics and practice new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions CBT is used to set small, practical goals, try experiments between meetings, and track progress. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation and focused suggestion to address issues like anxiety, habit change, and stress response; it can be adapted to video or phone work for those who find it helpful.Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize CBT, attachment-based work, or include hypnotherapy tools, and they adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video works well for deeper conversational work and behavioral experiments. Phone sessions can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and messaging let people keep momentum with brief updates, journaling prompts, or between-session contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep continuity when life is unpredictable.
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What this therapist 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
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