Linda Levinson , LPCC

Linda Levinson is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor with ten years of experience working with people facing addiction, mood concerns, and stress. She brings direct experience from substance use and co-occurring disorder work into her counseling. Linda also supports people in the LGBTQ community and those exploring sexual identity and non-monogamous relationship structures.

Her style is straightforward and practical. She helps clients name what is getting in the way and find small, doable steps to change. Sessions focus on real-life problems like sleep trouble, parenting strain, workplace stress, and managing urges tied to process or substance addictions.

Linda draws on several evidence-informed approaches to match each person's needs. She uses acceptance-based strategies and mindfulness to reduce avoidance, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift habits and thoughts. She emphasizes personal values and what matters to the client when setting goals.

She often works with people coping with grief, trauma, or long-term caregiving stress, and with those managing chronic illness or pain. Linda also supports clients dealing with intimacy, communication, and commitment questions, including kink and alternative sexual culture concerns.

Sessions are intended to be collaborative and paced to the individual. Linda aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions and to uncover strengths drawn from past experience. Practical tools and clear next steps are part of the work.

Practical approaches for online work

Linda often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts without letting them control actions; this approach links values to practical steps and can help with anxiety, addiction, and life transitions. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping habits for problems like insomnia, mood struggles, and urges related to addictive behaviors.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to test methods, adjust techniques, and find what fits best based on goals and preferences. Progress is reviewed together and strategies are changed when something does not feel useful.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat supports focused check-ins, and text-based messaging is useful for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives and to keep momentum between sessions.