Linda Young, MD, LCSW-C

Linda Young uses a practical, problem-focused approach that centers on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside psychodynamic ideas. She combines straightforward skill building with attention to life history. Linda aims to help people reduce distress and manage everyday problems. Linda is an MD and a Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical (LCSW-C) with 25 years of experience in mental health. She spent many years providing services in Boston before continuing her work in Maryland after 2013. Her recent work has focused on adults in substance use treatment programs dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, and grief. Sessions often include clear tools for managing anxiety, mood, and cravings. She also pays attention to patterns that started earlier in life and how they affect current relationships and coping. Education about a person’s specific challenges is part of each plan so people know what they are working on and why. Linda works with a broad range of concerns including stress, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar symptoms, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include family of origin issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. Her style is warm and direct. Early sessions aim to build a working relationship and a clear plan that uses a person’s strengths. Over time she blends skills practice with exploration of underlying patterns to help people make practical changes.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Linda commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new coping strategies. CBT is useful for stress, anxiety, mood problems, and addictive behaviors because it focuses on concrete skills and homework exercises.

She also draws on psychodynamic therapy to look at the roots of recurring patterns and relationship struggles. This approach can help when past experiences shape current reactions and people want deeper self-understanding.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match goals, preferences, and presenting concerns to the most helpful methods. Adjustments are made over time as needs change.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for in-depth sessions and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps maintain progress between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and daily routines while working toward clearer coping and symptom management.