Linda Richards , LPC

Linda Richards is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with 21 years of clinical experience helping people move past the patterns that keep them feeling stuck. She focuses on the ways trauma and neglect shape mood, behavior, relationships, and physical symptoms, and she helps clients recognize the blind spots that often drive repeated reactions and decisions.

Drawing on a range of trauma-informed techniques, Linda integrates EMDR and somatic-based therapies alongside Trauma Model therapy, brainspotting, DBT, CBT, and ego-state interventions to address the wide variety of trauma presentations she encounters. She frames symptoms such as anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and difficulties with intimacy or parenting as understandable responses to life events, and she works to help clients metabolize emotion so they can regain balance and functioning.

Linda works with both children and adults and supports people dealing with stress, relationship and family challenges, grief, addictions, LGBT concerns, ADHD, career issues, and many related problems tied to attachment and family of origin. Her approach combines practical skill-building with deeper exploration of how past experiences shape present life, offering a path toward clearer self-understanding and increased emotional resilience.

Integrating trauma-informed approaches with flexible online care

Linda Richards uses EMDR to help process distressing memories by working with adaptive information processing, which can reduce the emotional intensity of traumatic experiences and the symptoms that follow. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore patterns of connection and separation - it supports people who struggle with trust, abandonment, or closeness by examining early relational patterns and building more secure ways of relating. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and gentle acceptance, offering practical tools to manage anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and emotional reactivity.

Selecting the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Linda collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She combines active skill-building with deeper exploration so treatment adjusts to the person rather than forcing a single model.

Online therapy offers flexibility to engage in treatment from home or other convenient settings. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions provide an accessible alternative, and live chat or text-based messaging can support ongoing work between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity of care when in-person visits are not practical.