About Linda
Linda Goldsmith offers experienced, compassionate care for people facing a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges. With 25 years in the field, she focuses on helping clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting and career stressors, and other life changes.
Background and approach
She is also experienced addressing trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, sleep difficulties, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and related issues such as abandonment, attachment problems, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Goldsmith practices with a client-centered emphasis while drawing on evidence-based methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, plus relationship-focused models such as the Gottman Method and Imago Relationship Therapy. She aims to help clients build practical coping skills, process past hurts, and strengthen self-esteem and interpersonal communication.
Licensed as an LMHC and LCPC, she provides care from Florida and brings decades of clinical experience to each therapeutic partnership. Prospective clients can expect attentive, pragmatic work that prioritizes the client’s goals and pace.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Linda Goldsmith draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-focused foundation where clients’ own goals guide the work; this approach helps people explore feelings and build a stronger sense of self. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and sleep or stress-related difficulties. When emotional regulation and interpersonal pattern change are central concerns, elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy are used to teach distress tolerance, mindfulness, and improved emotion management.Determining the right fit is part of the therapeutic partnership. The therapist collaborates with each client to select and adapt approaches based on presenting concerns, personal goals, and preferences, so treatment evolves as progress and needs change.
Online therapy sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase accessibility and convenience. These formats allow clients to engage in skill practice, reflective conversations, and communication work from locations that fit their schedules, making consistent care easier to maintain alongside daily responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Illinois, New York
- Languages
- English