About Lynda
Lynda Wright is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and addictive behaviors. She focuses on practical steps. Sessions are grounded in respect and a straightforward, supportive style.
She draws on nearly two decades of experience as a social worker in Florida. That experience includes work with people living with mood disorders and serious mental health challenges. She pays attention to strengths and what each person already does well.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses a client-centered approach that puts the person's goals first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are often part of the work, helping people notice patterns of thought and try small experiments to change them. She also uses mindfulness and motivational techniques to help with coping and focus.
Lynda emphasizes collaboration. She listens, asks practical questions, and helps set clear, achievable goals. Progress is tracked in real terms, such as reducing panic moments, improving sleep, or managing urges more effectively.
People who come to her can expect a calm, direct style and an emphasis on skills they can use between sessions. She supports people through life changes, relationship stress, identity concerns, and long-term conditions that affect daily living. Lynda aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person first. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person set goals that matter to them. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, respectful place to talk and decide next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses short exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and managing mood swings.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple skills to notice thoughts and body sensations without getting stuck in them. These practices can reduce reactivity and support steadying attention during stressful moments.
Choosing the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what techniques feel most useful. Together they try methods and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and practical while juggling work, family, and daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English