With 25 years of experience, Linda Spielman specializes in helping adolescents, young adults, and parents. She is intensively trained by the Linehan Institute in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and co-founded the first DBT practice in Austin, Texas (2005-2024). In addition, she provides a trauma-informed psychodynamic approach.
Linda's warm authentic style creates a safe space to process sensitive topics, overcome challenges and create lasting change.
After a guest appearance on The Today Show, she produced an instructional DVD, "Teens who Self-Injure." She's trained hundreds of school counselors, teachers and nurses on the topic. Her three years of post-graduate studies include Family Systems, Mindfulness and Attachment therapy.
Additional areas of focus: Attachment issues, Communication problems, Coping with natural or human-caused disaster, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Emptiness, Family of origin issues, Guilt and shame, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Mood disorders, Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Personality disorders, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-harm, Self-love, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Young adult issues
NC LCSW C017626
TX LCSW 36198
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I highly recommend Linda as a therapist. She listens, provides valuable information and is professional. I am glad I found her to help me navigate and grow from what has been a difficult time in my life.
Written on May 16, 2025 after therapy with Linda for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, and coping with life changes