Linda Giles, LPC, LCMHC

Linda Giles is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 28 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, grief, addiction, ADHD, and other life changes. Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people take the first step toward feeling better.

Linda describes her style as interactive and compassionate. She adapts methods to each person rather than using a single fixed method. Sessions focus on practical skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and handling everyday pressures. She teaches simple strategies for regulating uncomfortable symptoms.

Her background includes work with a wide age range from children through older adults. She has experience addressing PTSD, anger management, workplace strain, parenting challenges, intimacy-related issues, and mood disorders. She also pays attention to concerns like abandonment, caregiver stress, dissociation, and seasonal mood changes.

Linda uses elements from client-centered approaches, cognitive-behavioral ideas, psychodynamic thinking, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused work. Those tools are combined in ways that match what each person needs in the moment. The focus is on clear steps people can try between sessions.

She is licensed in Virginia and North Carolina and works in English. If someone wants to begin, they choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's availability.

How therapy approaches guide online work

Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy, and helps people feel heard while exploring goals and concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.

Psychodynamic work explores patterns that repeat over time and where they may come from. It can help people understand long-standing relationship and emotional patterns so they can make different choices going forward.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest methods that fit. Together you can try strategies and adjust the plan as you learn what helps most.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, shorten follow-up check-ins, and allow for different pacing of sessions. Many people appreciate being able to continue care without extra travel, and therapists can tailor exercises and homework to everyday routines.