About Linda
Linda Goldsmith is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD-related challenges. She brings 25 years of clinical experience and a calm, practical manner to each session. Linda practices in Florida and conducts sessions in English.
She focuses on short-term skills and longer-term healing. Linda uses client-centered methods to listen first and understand what matters most to each person. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and build workable habits.
Background and approach
In sessions she breaks problems into manageable steps. People learn practical tools for sleeping better, managing anger, coping with grief, and improving day-to-day functioning. She also supports those working through relationship strain, intimacy concerns, or career stress.
Linda emphasizes emotional safety and steady progress. She helps clients identify patterns that came from early relationships, abandonment, or family-of-origin dynamics, and then practices new ways of relating. When trauma or loss appears, she moves at a pace the client can manage.
Her work includes attention to caregiver stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns, as well as substance use and codependency. Over time clients build clearer goals, better coping skills, and more self-compassion. To begin, Linda asks questions about current struggles and daily routines so the first steps are practical and tailored.
She supports people through life transitions and complex emotions, with an emphasis on usable strategies and steady, realistic change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience. The therapist listens without judgment and encourages clients to set goals that matter to them, which helps when anxiety, depression, or life changes feel overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking, improve sleep, manage anger, and reduce anxiety symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These tools can be useful for mood swings, relationship conflict, and coping with strong feelings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods based on needs, goals, and personal preference. This shared process helps tailor sessions to real-life demands rather than applying a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy makes sessions easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls let the therapist and client read facial cues and do longer sessions. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, and flexible support between longer appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Illinois, New York
- Languages
- English
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