About Linda
Linda McNellis is a licensed clinical social worker in Oregon with 26 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges like ADHD or caregiver strain. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making difficult problems easier to talk about and manage.
Linda focuses on practical ways to feel steadier in day-to-day life. She blends somatic awareness with talk-based tools so people can notice how emotions show up in the body and respond differently.
Background and approach
Sessions often include grounding skills, clear behavioral steps, and time to reflect on patterns that keep problems repeating. Her work addresses many common life difficulties, including sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, work stress, and chronic illness or pain. She also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment wounds, blended family dynamics, and the emotional strain of caregiving.
Linda listens for what matters most and helps create manageable next steps. Linda uses a mix of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, and client-centered care. That combination lets her tailor sessions to each person’s needs and goals.
She encourages skills practice between sessions so change can continue outside the therapy hour. People who choose her can expect a steady, compassionate presence and a focus on useful, real-world strategies. The process is collaborative: she helps clients name priorities, try new ways of coping, and track small gains over time.
How somatic-informed and ACT work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how feelings show up in the body and uses simple sensory and movement practices to help regulate emotions. Online sessions can guide people to notice breath, posture, or tension and build skills for calmer responses to stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It focuses on practical actions and learning to accept uncomfortable thoughts so they have less control over behavior.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods feel most helpful for their goals and preferences. That may mean combining somatic awareness with ACT or choosing more client-centered or cognitive strategies when appropriate.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, practice skills in home settings, and maintain continuity during life transitions. Working this way can help someone build steady habits and apply tools between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English