Linda Giles, LPC, LCMHC

Linda Giles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 28 years of clinical work. She brings a down-to-earth, compassionate approach and aims to make the first step feel less daunting. Linda works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship and parenting struggles, and aging and geriatric issues. Her style is adaptable and practical. She tailors methods to each person's needs and teaches simple techniques to manage strong emotions. Linda combines ideas from client-centered work, cognitive-behavioral methods, psychodynamic thinking, solution-focused tools, and trauma-focused strategies to build a plan that fits the individual. She has a long history helping people with PTSD, anger management, workplace stress, mood disorders, and social anxiety. She also supports those coping with caregiver stress, blended family challenges, and issues around commitment and intimacy. Her experience spans a wide age range, and she has worked with people from childhood years through later adulthood. In sessions she focuses on clear skills and steady progress. That might include learning ways to reframe unhelpful thoughts, practicing communication steps, or tracing patterns that keep problems repeating. Her aim is to leave people with usable tools for everyday life. Linda knows taking the first step can feel hard and works to make appointments comfortable. She describes therapy as a shared process and stays involved in planning goals and next steps with each person.

How Linda Uses Different Approaches Online

Client-centered work focuses on understanding each person's experience and helping them set their own goals. In practice this means the therapist listens closely and reflects back what matters most to the client so they feel heard and can move forward. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior. It often involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new ways of responding, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation. Psychodynamic approaches pay attention to patterns that repeat over time and where they might come from. This can help people understand long-standing relationship or emotional patterns that cause distress. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made. Confirm the specific session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time, which helps people keep therapy consistent. Therapists and licensed professionals can help decide how to use online appointments to match everyday life.