About Linda
Dr. Linda Visaggi offers support for stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, addictions, trauma, parenting concerns, and questions about identity. She also helps with anger, low self-esteem, career decisions, life transitions, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Her style is warm, encouraging, and straightforward. She aims to give practical tools people can use right away. Dr.
Linda is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with 28 years of experience and practices in Virginia.
Background and approach
She works with adults on individual concerns and provides guidance on relationship and family matters. Conversations focus on realistic steps rather than long lectures. Expect a calm, hopeful tone that centers the person’s goals.
In sessions she blends clear strategies with listening and empathy. Techniques come from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, and solution-focused work. Those methods are used to build skills for managing strong emotions, changing unhelpful thoughts, and improving day-to-day functioning.
She pays attention to practical needs like communication patterns, coping with loss, caregiving stress, and blended family challenges. She also supports people facing aging issues, autism spectrum concerns, hospice and end-of-life questions, and isolation. The focus is on what helps now and what will hold up over time.
Clients can expect a collaborative process that targets small, achievable changes. Linda aims to equip people with tools to manage problems, improve relationships, and move toward goals. The overall tone is hopeful and action-oriented.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Linda uses client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person sets the pace and goals. This approach focuses on active listening and helping people find their own solutions for relationship issues, grief, and life stress.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy - CBT - to help people notice and change thoughts and habits that make anxiety, depression, or anger worse. CBT provides concrete strategies and exercises people can practice between sessions to see measurable shifts.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single model. Together they decide which strategies to try and when to adapt the plan.
Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full session with visual cues, phone can be helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching or quick coping reminders. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into work breaks, travel, or different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Virginia
- Languages
- English