Linda Richards
Guiding parents past stuck patterns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Linda
Linda Richards is a licensed professional counselor with over 21 years of experience in mental health. She focuses on helping people move past the patterns that keep them stuck. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, parenting concerns, and related challenges parents notice in daily life.
She has worked with trauma since 1997 and has seen how traumatic experiences can show up as anxiety, chronic pain, depression, or difficulty functioning.
Background and approach
Linda explains things plainly and helps people understand how past experiences shape present reactions. Sessions aim to make those connections clear and manageable. Her approach blends body-centered work and evidence-informed therapies.
She uses methods such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, mindfulness techniques, motivational interviewing, psychodynamic ideas, and attachment-based work. These tools are used to reduce symptoms and to help people feel more in control of their responses. Linda sees both children and adults and offers practical steps to improve daily functioning.
She encourages clients to notice small changes and practice new ways of coping between sessions. Parents often find this helpful for managing their own stress and improving interactions at home. Conversations in sessions are direct but compassionate.
Linda helps people identify triggers, try different responses, and build clearer patterns over time. She supports gradual progress so clients can return to routines with more ease and confidence.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape feelings and reactions. It helps people spot patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more connected.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a structured method that helps the brain process upsetting memories. It is commonly used for trauma-related symptoms and for memories that keep triggering stress in daily life.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention skills to notice thoughts, body sensations, and emotions without immediately reacting. It can reduce anxiety and help with regulation when daily demands feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. If one approach doesn't fit, alternatives are discussed and adjusted together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around family schedules, school runs, and work. Remote care lets people keep continuity of support while balancing everyday responsibilities.
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.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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