Linda Thomas, LISW-CP

Linda Thomas is a clinical social worker with three decades of practice who helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life changes. She uses straightforward talk and practical tools so people can manage stress and get back to daily life.

Linda earned a Master of Social Work from Florida State University and began her career doing legal advocacy and addiction work. Early internships included representing unhoused people with serious mental illness at a public defender's office and supporting people in a detox setting.

Over the last 30 years she has worked in a range of settings. She helped start one of the early HIV support groups in Atlanta in the 1990s. She has also consulted with the Department of Defense to provide services on bases in Germany, Norway, and Greenland. Locally she has done psychiatric assessments in an emergency department in Charleston, South Carolina.

Her approach blends practical, evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Sessions focus on concrete skills, exploring values, and building coping plans that fit everyday life.

People choose Linda for her long experience and her direct, compassionate style. She works with a wide range of concerns from trauma and relationship pain to caregiving stress, addiction, panic, and eating-related problems. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients when suitable arrangements are made.

Practical therapy approaches for online care

Linda uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and many everyday struggles by focusing on clear steps and homework.

She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy which centers on clarifying what matters to a person and building small actions toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. Dialectical behavior therapy strategies add concrete emotion regulation, distress-tolerance, and interpersonal skills for intense emotions or relationship strain.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan over time as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is best when face-to-face conversation helps, phone can fit a tight schedule or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions.