About Linda
Linda McNellis is a licensed clinical social worker in Oregon with 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She offers calm, straightforward support for everyday struggles like sleep trouble, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. Linda aims to make therapy understandable and useful for busy lives.
She listens first and helps people name what matters most to them. Sessions focus on practical skills and clearer thinking so people can cope better day to day.
Background and approach
Linda draws on a mix of approaches to match each person's needs rather than using the same plan for everyone. Her work often addresses relationship and intimacy-related concerns, communication problems, and challenges tied to caregiving or chronic illness. She also supports people dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related struggles.
Linda pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes when those patterns come up. Clients can expect a therapy style that balances acceptance with action. That means noticing painful feelings, then taking concrete steps to move forward.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods and skills from dialectical approaches when helpful. Over more than two decades she has built experience with aging and geriatric issues, blended family concerns, and body image or cancer-related stress. Her goal is to help people feel steadier and more capable in daily life by focusing on small, workable changes.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Linda often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then commit to small actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying clearer, more effective ways of responding to daily stressors.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client will talk about goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan together. Linda aims to match methods to what feels useful for the person's situation and preferences rather than sticking to a single way of working.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for a more traditional session feel, phone sessions can work when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred, and messaging or live chat can support quick check-ins or continued practice between sessions. These options allow people to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English