About Linda
Linda Scaturro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, and life changes. She draws on 25 years of experience in healthcare to offer calm, practical support. Her style is conversational and down-to-earth, aimed at making hard topics easier to talk about.
Linda listens closely and treats people with respect and compassion. Sessions focus on building everyday skills that make life more manageable.
Background and approach
She uses a strengths-based perspective to help people find what already works for them and build on it. Her approach includes practical tools from cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness. She also uses client-centered and solution-focused techniques to keep work grounded and goal-oriented.
Motivational interviewing is part of how she helps people clarify what matters and take steps toward change. Linda has particular experience with issues across the life span, including aging and caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and midlife transitions. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, addiction, and career or parenting stresses.
Her work often addresses communication problems, codependency, and feelings of isolation. Sessions are intended to be collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Linda emphasizes setting realistic goals and practicing skills between visits.
She aims to help people feel more capable and connected as they move forward.
How Linda’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered work puts the person’s concerns and goals at the center of each session. That means the conversation guides what gets worked on and how progress is measured. This approach is helpful for people who want a thoughtful, paced process focused on their priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emphasizes practical skills and clear steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online sessions can include specific exercises, worksheets, and check-ins to track progress between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and improve focus, which can be practiced during short daily moments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust as work proceeds. That means approaches may be mixed or shifted over time to find what helps most.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging - add flexibility to scheduling and communication. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or require less bandwidth, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging is useful for quick thoughts or reminders. These options make it easier to keep momentum between sessions and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English