Linda Guidry
Compassionate, goal-focused counseling
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Alaska
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Linda
Linda Guidry is a Licensed Professional Counselor who offers straightforward support for people feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out. She speaks plainly and helps clients set clear goals. Her style is warm and focused, aimed at practical steps that reduce stress and rebuild daily life.
Linda uses tried methods to help people move forward and make choices that fit their values. She trained at the University of New Orleans and earned a master’s degree in Educational Leadership, Guidance, and Counseling.
Background and approach
Linda has worked in independent practice, the foster care system, day programs for chronically ill adults, and in nonprofit settings. Her background includes work with mood disorders, anxiety, depression, anger management, grief, and adult-onset disability and chronic illness. Linda draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and hypnotherapy.
In sessions she helps clients set goals, practice new skills, and try small changes that build confidence. She describes her approach as empathetic and goal oriented, matching tools to the issues a person brings. Her practice emphasizes helping people regain balance during major life changes, loss, or ongoing stress.
Sessions focus on understanding patterns, improving coping strategies, and making choices that feel manageable. Linda aims to support growth while keeping work practical and straightforward. Linda is licensed in Louisiana and Alaska and has 16 years of clinical experience.
She sees therapy as a collaborative effort and works with each person to identify steps toward a more satisfying daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Linda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety and depression. CBT focuses on practical exercises and homework that build new habits for daily life.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and healthier ways to relate to others. DBT skills can be useful when strong emotions or relationship stress get in the way of making choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Linda collaborates with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. She reviews options together and adjusts the plan as needs evolve.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people fit sessions around busy schedules, review tools in writing, or use real-time conversation when that works best. The variety of options helps people keep consistent progress while juggling family, work, and other responsibilities.
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.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alaska
- Languages
- English
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