About Linda
Linda Levinson is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with ten years of experience helping people manage addiction, anxiety, and life transitions. She began her career focused on mental health and substance abuse treatment and developed practical skills working with opioid recovery and co-occurring disorders.
Linda brings a direct, steady approach and aims to make therapy understandable and useful for busy parents and adults. She regularly supports people struggling with stress, depression, grief, anger, sleep problems, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Addiction work includes both substance use and process addictions such as gambling, shopping, video gaming, internet use, exercise, and sex and love addictions. Linda also works with people navigating sexual identity, LGBTQIA concerns, and non-monogamous relationship arrangements. Her method is collaborative and goal-focused.
She helps clients identify what holds them back, then builds on past strengths to reach practical outcomes. Sessions mix talk, skills practice, and clear steps clients can try between meetings. Linda uses a range of therapeutic approaches to match each person’s needs, including acceptance-based and cognitive tools along with mindfulness practices.
She values acceptance and empowerment as core parts of change. Her work also addresses caregiving stress, chronic illness, blended family dynamics, trauma, and communication problems. Clients can expect plain language, realistic homework, and attention to day-to-day obstacles.
Linda aims to make therapy fit real life so progress continues outside the session.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then move toward a life based on personal values. This can be useful for anxiety, addiction, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and trying specific steps to change them, which often helps with depression, insomnia, and anxiety. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve stress management, which pairs well with both ACT and CBT.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust methods over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which combination of approaches is most helpful for the issues at hand.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a better fit during busy days. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping progress steady.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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