About Lynda
Dr. Lynda Cokuslu is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and other life changes.
Her work often centers on practical steps people can use day to day to feel steadier and more able to cope. She creates a calm, respectful atmosphere where people can talk through painful events and make sense of current struggles.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to how habits, thoughts, and relationships affect wellbeing. Dr. Cokuslu listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients test small changes between meetings.
Her practice brings together several evidence-based approaches. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and ACT strategies to clarify values and build committed action. Emotionally focused ideas guide work on relationship patterns and attachment concerns.
Dr. Cokuslu often helps people manage stress, sleep problems, anger, and challenges around parenting or caregiving. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, body image concerns, and the impacts of trauma.
The language in sessions is plain and direct so clients can practice new skills quickly. People can expect a steady, problem-solving style that balances validation with practical tools. She discusses progress and next steps regularly so goals stay clear and reachable.
Over time the focus shifts from coping to living in ways that match each person’s values.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through concrete exercises and practice between sessions, which can reduce worry and improve sleep. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape relationships and attachment patterns and can help people improve communication and connection.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. That means starting with a few focused tools and expanding or shifting methods as progress is tracked together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for in-depth sessions and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and text messaging supports shorter reflections or coaching between meetings. These options make scheduling more flexible and let people continue work from wherever they are located in Georgia.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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