About Linda
Linda Richards is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over 21 years in mental health. She focuses on helping people move past the patterns that keep them stuck. Her approach is direct and practical, aimed at restoring balance so daily life feels more manageable.
Richards began working in trauma care in 1997 and has spent decades helping people whose symptoms show up as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, or difficulties in relationships and work.
Background and approach
She explains how past neglect or upsetting events can shape reactions and habits. That background shapes how she notices connections between body responses, feelings, and behavior. In sessions she mixes body-centered work with talk-based tools.
She uses Somatic Therapy to help people notice what their bodies are holding. She also draws from EMDR and mindfulness to reduce intense reactions and teach calmer ways to respond. Her style is collaborative and paced to the person's comfort.
Linda helps people identify small, concrete steps they can try between sessions. She also supports work on parenting stress, grief, addiction-related struggles, and career concerns. Linda holds an LPC credential in Wisconsin and has extensive experience with trauma-related presentations.
She offers practical skills as well as exploration of patterns that began in early relationships. The focus is on making day-to-day life clearer and more manageable.
How somatic and trauma-informed approaches work online
Somatic Therapy helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body, such as tension, breath changes, or gut sensations. Online sessions can guide gentle awareness exercises and grounding techniques that reduce overwhelming reactions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns that began in early relationships and how they affect current connections and boundaries; it helps people understand why they react to others the way they do and practice different responses in everyday life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and needs and suggest which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process that can change over time as progress is made and preferences are clarified.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging for short check-ins or support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work when travel or schedules get in the way.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English