Linda O'Malley
Compassionate, practical support for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LCMHC, LMHC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- New Hampshire, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Linda
Linda O'Malley is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing worry, low mood, and life transitions. She works with common struggles such as anxiety, depression, stress, self-esteem, and issues around intimacy and relationships. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making therapy understandable and practical for busy people.
Linda practices in New Hampshire and brings 15 years of experience to her work. She uses plain language and simple tools so clients can try new strategies between sessions.
Background and approach
She also addresses concerns linked to grief, addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, and compassion fatigue. Her approach centers on building a personalized set of skills tailored to each person’s needs. Sessions often focus on concrete steps - breathing and mindfulness practices, reframing unhelpful thoughts, and trying small behavioral changes.
Hypnotherapy is also available when a client is interested in exploring guided imagery and focused attention techniques. Linda believes perspective shifts can reveal solutions that feel out of reach. She encourages self-compassion while helping people regain a sense of purpose and direction.
The work aims to increase practical coping skills and resilience rather than rely solely on talk. Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are defined together and progress is tracked. Over time the emphasis moves from problem solving to sustaining healthier habits and clearer thinking.
Linda combines a client-centered stance with methods from cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, narrative, existential work, and hypnotherapy to match each person’s preferences.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Linda commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness approaches. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and encourages small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment attention and simple practices to calm the body and improve sleep and emotional regulation.She also incorporates client-centered therapy, which focuses on empathic listening and building a supportive relationship so clients feel heard while exploring goals. Together the therapist and client decide which methods to try first, and adjustments are made as goals or needs change. This collaborative process helps find the best fit for each person’s situation.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible access to therapy. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, and other obligations and allow continuity when travel or scheduling conflicts arise. Remote formats support regular practice of skills between meetings and let clients choose the communication style that feels most comfortable.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire, Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
Next step
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