Linda Hazel
Trusted family-focused LMFT with 35 years experience
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Linda
Linda Hazel is a licensed marriage and family therapist working in Tennessee. She brings 35 years of experience to sessions and focuses on addictions, relationship struggles, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues. She frames therapy as a partnership and treats each person as the expert on their life.
Her style is calm and encouraging and aimed at helping people take practical steps forward. Clients can expect a straightforward approach that honors their strengths.
Background and approach
Linda listens first, then helps identify patterns that get in the way. She explains options in simple language and works together with clients to find small, usable changes. The emphasis is on real-life progress rather than abstract theory.
Her background includes long-term clinical work with people facing complex relationship and addiction problems. Over the years she has used multiple therapeutic methods to suit different needs. That experience helps when tailoring sessions to whatever is most helpful in the moment.
Therapy often includes talking through difficult events, practicing new ways of communicating, and learning skills to manage cravings or triggers. Sessions may also explore how early attachment and family patterns affect current relationships. Linda supports practical problem solving for everyday family concerns.
Parents reading this will find a therapist who focuses on family and parenting issues while keeping explanations clear and direct. She aims to help clients build safer, more reliable relationships and better daily routines. Getting started begins with a simple sign-up and a brief matching questionnaire.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions that match those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and moving toward meaningful goals, which can help with addiction and chronic stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and helps people shift how they relate to loved ones. It is useful for repairing trust and improving closeness. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and empathy, giving space for clients to tell their story and find their own solutions through supportive reflection.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss how different methods might help and tailor sessions to a client's goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family lives and to continue care across distances. Using multiple formats also allows for short check-ins or longer sessions depending on what is most helpful in a given week.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
Next step
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