About Linda
Linda Mather (nee Spencer) is a psychotherapist with 26 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She is a BACP counsellor and has written counselling and self-help books. Linda also trains other professionals and provides clinical supervision.
She aims to make the first step into therapy as straightforward as possible for worried parents and individuals. Linda uses an integrative approach that draws on several well-known methods. She adapts her way of working to each person rather than using a single technique.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical conversation, coping strategies, and building skills to manage strong feelings. She favours clear, short-term aims when these suit a person's needs. Her clinical background includes supporting people with anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma and emotional abuse.
She has also helped those dealing with relationship problems, parenting strain, grief, eating concerns and career stresses. Work can include talking through difficult memories and learning ways to reduce distress day to day. Linda has considerable experience with young people and has worked with children and adolescents on self-harm, emotional regulation, anxiety, bullying, loss and friendship issues.
She combines warmth and directness to help people feel heard while making steady progress. In sessions she tailors dialogue and a treatment plan to each person. That might include skill-building from cognitive approaches, exploring attachment patterns, or using acceptance strategies to manage difficult thoughts.
Her aim is to help people find manageable steps forward and regain a sense of control.
How Linda's approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed by them, then commit to actions that matter to them. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying practical experiments to change them; it is often used for anxiety, phobias and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current relationships and emotion regulation, helping people improve connection and reduce conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Linda works collaboratively to find which methods suit each person's situation and goals. She may blend techniques over time, checking in about what helps and what feels less useful, so the plan adjusts as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for emotional work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help fitting therapy around school, work and family commitments while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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