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Linda Spalding

Family-focused counselor with practical tools

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Credentials
LMHC
Experience
30 years
Licensed in
Florida
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Linda

Linda Spalding is a licensed mental health counselor with three decades of experience. She focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of relationship and personal challenges. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at parents who need clear steps and support.

Sessions move at a practical pace and center on the issues you bring to the room. Linda draws on work with addiction, mood problems, trauma, relationship strain, grief, and stress.

Background and approach

She also addresses concerns like compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and intimacy-related issues. Her background includes practice in personal settings, residential programs, intensive outpatient care, and partial hospital programs. That range shapes a flexible approach to different life situations.

She blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - which looks at thoughts and behaviors to shift outcomes - with Motivational Interviewing to foster personal drive. Solution-Focused Therapy helps set small, steady goals that make daily life more manageable. Linda avoids a single method for everyone and instead adapts tools to match each family’s needs.

Over years she has worked with individuals, couples, families, and groups in both corporate and nonprofit settings. That experience informs how she supports communication, boundary setting, and practical problem solving at home. Her license is LMHC, Florida LMHC MH13949, and she practices from Florida.

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Online formats include video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. Getting started begins by using the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling by therapist availability.

Approaches and online options that suit family life

Linda frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that interfere with daily parenting and relationships. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help clients find personal reasons to change their behavior, which can be helpful with addictions, lifestyle shifts, and making parenting changes that stick.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Linda will talk with each parent or partner about goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. Together they try methods and adjust as needed so the work fits the family’s routine and values.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy families. Video calls approximate an in-person session while letting parents join from home. Phone sessions and live chat provide simpler options on hectic days. Text-based messaging can keep momentum between meetings and allow short check-ins when schedules are tight. These formats aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible for everyday life.

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.

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.

Motivational Interviewing

A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does Linda work with?
She addresses stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and family problems, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, bipolar concerns, and many related issues such as caregiver stress and chronic illness.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Linda uses practical, goal-oriented methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She focuses on steps clients can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has around 30 years of clinical experience working in independent practice, residential settings, intensive outpatient programs, and partial hospital programs with individuals, couples, families, and groups.
Where is she licensed and located?
Linda is a licensed mental health counselor with Florida LMHC MH13949 and practices from Florida.
In which language are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She meets via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility for different schedules.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

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Experience
30 years
Licensed
Florida
Languages
English

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