Linda Cousens, LCPC

Linda Cousens is an experienced therapist based in Maine who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She offers practical support for grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, career issues, and intimacy-related struggles. Linda uses straightforward, goal-focused work to help people take the next step.

She brings 22 years in the counseling field to each session, including more than a decade in private practice. Linda holds a Master’s degree in Counseling and the credential LCPC, which she uses in her practice in Maine. Sessions are conversational and focused on what the client wants to change.

Linda draws on several approaches to fit a person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful patterns and build new skills. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based choices when life feels stuck. Client-centered work emphasizes listening and respect for each person’s perspective.

Her style blends practical skill-building with thoughtful reflection. She supports people coping with life changes, compassion fatigue, and career decisions through active problem solving and planning. Sessions often include concrete steps to practice between meetings.

People looking for flexible online care can work with Linda through video, phone, chat, or messaging. She aims to make therapy useful and approachable, helping clients set realistic goals and notice steady progress.

How her approaches work online

Linda uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often focuses on skill practice and small experiments that can be tried between sessions to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take action toward those values, even when painful thoughts or feelings remain. That approach can be useful for life transitions, worry, and low motivation.

Client-centered methods inform her style as well, meaning sessions are grounded in attentive listening and respect for each person’s experience. Together the client and therapist decide which approach or mix of approaches feels most useful for the goals at hand.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people work face to face when they can, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, and messaging or chat supports brief contact and ongoing reflections between meetings. This variety aims to make therapy easier to schedule and maintain while matching the way a person prefers to communicate.