Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Linda works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Iowa
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Linda
Linda Dollen is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and life transitions. She offers steady, practical support when emotions feel overwhelming. Her manner is calm and down-to-earth, aimed at making difficult conversations easier to start.
In sessions she focuses on clear, usable tools people can apply between meetings. Linda uses methods that help clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and practice skills that reduce reactivity.
Background and approach
She also helps people sort through relationship and family concerns and build stronger communication habits. Clients can expect a listening approach that centers their priorities and pace. Linda emphasizes collaboration and straightforward feedback rather than long lectures.
She helps set short-term goals and tracks small steps toward them. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, and techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense feelings. Existential conversations may be used to clarify values and direction when life feels uncertain.
Linda works with concerns such as depression, addictions, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, intimacy issues, and career struggles. She also addresses areas like attachment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family challenges, and caregiver stress. Sessions focus on practical change and greater day-to-day coping.
Based in Iowa, Linda provides a supportive space for people ready to tackle anger, communication problems, and emotional overwhelm at a manageable pace.
What Linda works with
Everything Linda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Linda's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Linda lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Linda often blends cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thought patterns and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful reactions, which can help with anxiety, anger, and mood problems. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward them while learning to accept difficult feelings when they arise.She approaches treatment as a team effort. The therapist and client work together to decide which methods fit the client's goals and daily life. That collaborative process means approaches can shift as needs change, and progress is measured by small, practical steps rather than abstract goals.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and messaging can support quick reflections, homework check-ins, or people who prefer typing their thoughts. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep work progressing between meetings.
Questions people ask about Linda
What issues does Linda work with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, relationship and family concerns, addictions, grief, parenting strain, ADHD, and related challenges.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is calm and collaborative, focused on listening first and then testing practical strategies that fit each person's life.
What is her professional background?
Linda has 20 years of counseling experience and has worked with a wide range of emotional and interpersonal concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
She is an LMHC licensed in Iowa and provides services from that state.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are offered?
Linda offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.