Linda Levinson, LPCC

Linda Levinson is a licensed professional clinical counselor with ten years of experience in Ohio. She began her work after earning a dual degree in mental health and substance abuse treatment and has focused on helping people recover from substance use and related concerns. Linda often supports people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, and issues tied to addiction and self-esteem.

She brings practical experience with process addictions such as shopping, video gaming, Internet use, exercise, gambling, and sex and love addictions. Her background includes supporting people with opioid recovery and co-occurring disorders, which shaped how she approaches overlapping challenges. She also works with those managing chronic pain, illness, or caregiving stress.

Linda has substantial experience with LGBTQIA people and respects diverse identities and relationship styles. She helps people who are navigating sexual identity questions, the effects of sexual trauma, grief, or dysfunction, and those in open or non-monogamous relationships. Acceptance and empowering clients are central to her work.

In sessions she focuses on identifying what holds a person back and finding strengths from their past to build toward change. She adapts methods to fit each person, drawing on approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness when useful. Conversations are practical and focused on what someone can do between sessions.

Her practice also addresses parenting stress, relationship communication, sleep problems, career transitions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. Linda uses a blend of therapies to match each person’s goals and preferences.

How Linda’s approaches translate to online therapy

Linda often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and change behavior. CBT is focused and skill-based, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many forms of addiction.

She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. ACT can be helpful for coping with trauma, chronic illness, grief, and life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Linda collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as progress unfolds.

Online care is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, and chat or text messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain continuity of care when in-person meetings are not possible.