- Years in practice
- 9
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Linda
Linda Platt is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona. She focuses on parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction challenges, and trauma. Linda frames therapy as a practical step and encourages people who are nervous about starting to be gentle with themselves.
She believes each person knows their own story best. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit what the client needs. Linda emphasizes building on existing strengths and finding small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Her approach draws from attachment-based ideas, client-centered methods, and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means she pays attention to how relationships shape reactions, listens closely to what matters to each person, and uses straightforward skills to reduce unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Linda has nine years of professional experience working in independent practice in Arizona.
She has helped people with grief, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem, career stress, coping with life changes, and ADHD-related challenges. Additional topics she supports include adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image questions. Sessions are offered in English and open to international clients.
She offers a calm, practical style that aims to reduce overwhelm and help people manage daily challenges. The first session focuses on understanding current struggles and agreeing on simple next steps.
What Linda works with
Everything Linda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Linda helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Linda lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and reactions. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in relationships, practice new ways of connecting, and apply those changes at home and in daily life. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting, nonjudgmental space. In remote sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is important, and helps clarify goals and priorities.Finding the right approach usually happens together. The therapist will ask about goals, what has helped before, and what feels manageable now. That information guides whether to lean more on attachment ideas, skills from cognitive behavioral work, or a gentle, client-centered rhythm. The plan can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit schedules and preferences. Video is useful when visual cues help a conversation, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat or text works for shorter check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to keep momentum and fit therapy into a busy life.
Questions people ask about Linda
What concerns does Linda commonly address?
Linda works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, grief, intimacy-related problems, ADHD, and related challenges.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She takes a collaborative, down-to-earth approach that highlights a person's strengths and uses practical skills to reduce overwhelm.
What is her professional background?
Linda has nine years of professional experience and has worked in independent practice helping people with a range of life and relationship concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds an LPC credential and is licensed in Arizona as an Arizona LPC.
Which languages are supported during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
Yes, she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Linda offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule based on therapist availability.
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