I am licensed professional counselor in Missouri with 21 years of professional work experience. My goal is to help you expand your conscious awareness by living more radically open and developing a healthier relationship with your thoughts. Rather than fighting your internal experiences, I help clients build the capacity to turn toward them with curiosity, courage, and compassion. Many people come to therapy wanting relief from anxiety. While anxiety can feel overwhelming, I focus on something deeper: avoidance. Avoidance is often what keeps anxiety alive. When we organize our lives around trying not to feel discomfort—avoiding conflict, vulnerability, uncertainty, rejection, or failure—we unintentionally shrink our world.
I believe much of our suffering is not caused by our emotions themselves, but by how we relate to them. Depression, anxiety, anger, grief, and stress are deeply human experiences. When we respond to them with avoidance, perfectionism, self-criticism, or rigid boundaries, we can unintentionally deepen our pain and limit our lives. I work with anxiety, depression, trauma, self esteem, coping skills for stress management, avoidance, mal adaptive perfectionism, life goals, anger management, relationship struggles
Additional areas of focus: LGBT, Relationship issues, Anger management, Career difficulties, Coping with life changes, Abandonment, Avoidant personality, Communication problems, Control issues, Emptiness, Forgiveness, Gender dysphoria, Guilt and shame, Impulsivity, Isolation / loneliness, Mood disorders, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Post-traumatic stress, Sexuality, Social anxiety and phobia, Workplace issues
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Linda is wonderful we've just started working together but I have already felt such a great connection with her and her style of help. I would reccomend her a million times over.
Written on Apr 22, 2026 after therapy with Linda for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, lgbt, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, self esteem, coping with life changes, and adhd
She listens to you. She seems to really want to help you!! Thank you.
Written on Apr 17, 2026 after therapy with Linda for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes