About Linda
Linda Newton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people manage trauma, mood concerns, and addiction. She practices as an LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker) and draws on long experience in clinical settings to guide therapy conversations that feel direct and understandable.
She works with people facing trauma and post-traumatic stress, including clients with co-occurring mood disorders such as depression and bipolar. She also helps those struggling with substance use, chronic stress, anxiety, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Relationship strain and communication problems are common topics in her sessions. Her approach is practical and person-centered. Sessions focus on clear goals and skills people can use between meetings.
She adapts methods to the situation, combining short-term problem solving with deeper exploration when needed. Linda has significant experience with military-related trauma and with people who face complex combinations of symptoms. She has created educational material about how trauma, self-worth, and substance use interact.
That background informs how she explains reactions and recovery steps. Therapy with her tends to be collaborative. She helps clients map priorities, test small changes, and track what works.
People looking for straightforward guidance, tools for managing intense emotions, or help untangling past events may find her style a good match.
How specific approaches are used online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s concerns and helps them set their own goals, which works well for building trust and clarifying priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior and can help with anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process traumatic memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation. It is often used when past events continue to cause strong emotional reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about symptoms, goals, and what feels most comfortable. Together they try approaches, adjust pace, and pick tools that fit the person’s needs and life circumstances.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give the option of ongoing support between sessions or a written way to reflect on progress. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English