Linda Baxter, LPC

Linda Baxter is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She focuses on clear, direct work to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and handle grief. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at people who want honest feedback and steady progress.

She starts from a client-centered place, listening first to what matters most. Sessions focus on what is happening now and what can be changed. Linda mixes practical skills with reflection so people learn how their thoughts affect mood and behavior.

Linda uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help reframe unhelpful thinking and build new habits. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. For processing past trauma, she offers EMDR-informed methods alongside mindfulness practices to help people feel more grounded.

Over three decades she has worked extensively with people facing addiction and those rebuilding after loss. She emphasizes direct, honest communication and long-term support when addressing substance use, relapse prevention, and recovery skills. Her approach is collaborative and goal-focused.

People who come to Linda for help with career stress, parenting strain, relationship problems, body image, ADHD, or chronic caregiving stress find practical tools and steady guidance. She encourages questions and aims to make each session useful and manageable.

Linda practices in Texas and conducts sessions in English. She offers a range of online session formats to fit different schedules and needs.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Linda often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build practical coping skills. CBT sessions online focus on breaking problems into small steps and practicing new behaviors between meetings. Client-centered therapy is another core part of her work, which means sessions begin with listening and respect for each person's goals and values. This approach helps people feel heard while deciding what changes matter most. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication, which can be practiced in everyday situations.

Choosing the right approach is a team decision. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That plan can be adjusted over time, and goals are reviewed together so the approach stays helpful and realistic.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for full sessions and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a break at work or times with less bandwidth, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.