Linda Giles, LPC, LCMHC

Linda Giles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 28 years of experience. She offers calm, straightforward care for people coping with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship and parenting concerns. Her tone is down-to-earth and compassionate, aimed at helping people take practical steps forward.

She uses a mix of approaches to match what each person needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) features in her work to challenge unhelpful thinking and teach new coping skills. She also draws on client-centered listening and psychodynamic ideas to understand patterns that run beneath current struggles.

Sessions focus on simple tools people can use right away. Linda teaches breathing and grounding skills, ways to manage intense emotions, and step-by-step plans for behavior change. She keeps language plain and offers concrete strategies rather than jargon-heavy explanations.

Her background includes work with mood disorders, trauma-related issues, addictions, ADHD, and concerns around intimacy, self-esteem, and career stress. She has helped people facing caregiver strain, blended family challenges, grief, and veteran-related concerns across the lifespan.

Linda is licensed in Virginia and North Carolina and provides services in English. She is comfortable guiding someone through the first steps of therapy and aims to make starting treatment as simple and reassuring as possible.

How therapeutic approaches work online

Linda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centered methods in online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors with practical exercises, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-centered work emphasizes active listening and reflection, helping people feel heard and explore what matters to them.

She also incorporates psychodynamic ideas when it helps to notice repeating patterns from past experiences. Those explorations are woven into concrete plans so insight leads to real-life changes. Choosing an approach is a shared process - the therapist and client decide together which methods match the client's goals and preferences, and they adjust as work progresses.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for in-depth work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits better. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to send brief updates, ask quick questions, and stay connected between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care with licensed professionals.