Linda McNellis
Calm, practical help for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Linda
Linda McNellis is a licensed clinical social worker in Oregon who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She meets people where they are and offers steady, practical support for emotional struggles. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making coping feel doable instead of overwhelming.
With 26 years of clinical experience, Linda draws on several evidence-informed methods to tailor care to each person.
Background and approach
She uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help with thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationships and communication patterns. Sessions typically involve straightforward conversation, skill-building, and practices that can be used between meetings.
She helps people name unhelpful patterns and try small, manageable changes. The work prioritizes clarity and habits that fit daily life. Linda also brings experience addressing issues tied to caregiving, chronic illness, aging, and identity concerns such as self-esteem and body image.
She supports people coping with trauma, abandonment, and the ripple effects of grief and loss. Her approach centers on steady collaboration rather than quick fixes. People who choose Linda can expect a therapist who listens without judgment and helps set realistic goals.
She emphasizes practical strategies and emotional understanding so clients can build resilience over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward actions that matter to them. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for depression, sleep problems, and anger management.
Attachment-Based Therapy considers how early relationship patterns show up now and affect communication and intimacy. It can be helpful when relationship dynamics or past wounds interfere with current connections.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Linda collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She may combine elements from different approaches and adjusts strategies as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet: video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions around caregiving, work, and health needs, and they support continuing care when life gets busy. The formats make it easier to practice skills between meetings and keep momentum toward goals.
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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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