About Linda
Linda Richards is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of clinical work behind her. She focuses on helping people move past stuck points that keep them repeating the same patterns. Her style is direct, compassionate, and practical, aimed at getting everyday life back on track.
She has worked in trauma-focused settings since 1997, seeing how trauma often shows up as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or confusing behaviors. Linda explains how past neglect or hurt can shape reactions now, and she helps clients notice those patterns in simple, clear ways.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses approaches that connect feelings, body sensations, and memories. She helps people make sense of why they do what they do and practices skills to respond differently. The work is paced to each person’s needs and goals.
Linda also brings tools for stress, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship challenges. She offers support for parenting strain, work transitions, burnout, ADHD, and other life disruptions. Her experience includes helping people with abandonment or attachment issues and with first responder stress.
Clients meet with her for focused skill-building and for deeper processing of painful events. She blends talking work with body-centered and integrative methods. The aim is clearer choices, fewer automatic reactions, and a steadier day-to-day life.
How attachment, EMDR, and mindfulness can work online
Linda often uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and childhood influences. This approach looks at how early bonds shape expectations and reactions, and it can help with intimacy concerns, abandonment worries, and attachment issues.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, to process distressing memories. EMDR pairs focused attention with guided bilateral stimulation to help reduce the intensity of painful memories and their emotional charge. It is commonly used for trauma, anxiety, and strong emotional reactions.
Mindfulness practice appears in sessions as simple grounding and awareness exercises. Those techniques teach present-moment attention, which can reduce rumination and help manage stress and impulse-driven behavior.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest options. Adjustments are made over time so the work fits the individual’s pace and needs.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth processing and EMDR work when appropriate, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short check-ins, brief coaching, or maintaining progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- 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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