Linda Griffin, LPC

Linda Griffin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with nearly four decades of clinical experience. She brings a long history in education to her counseling work and focuses on helping people make practical changes in their daily lives.

Her background includes teaching at secondary and post-secondary levels and leadership roles in higher education. Those roles shaped her interest in lifelong learning and in teaching skills that build self-efficacy. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and has served as a director of counseling services and a dean of student development.

In sessions she treats people as the driver of their own progress. She uses that tandem-bicycle metaphor to describe how she supports clients - offering information, encouragement, and guidance while clients steer the work. Her typical focus is on defining clear goals and practical steps to reach them.

Her published approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Motivational Interviewing, and she adapts techniques to match each person's needs. Linda has worked with a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, eating and food-related issues, self-esteem, grief, anger, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and jealousy.

She also attends to related life issues like career choices, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, multicultural matters, gender dysphoria, and midlife transitions. Sessions are offered in English and based in Louisiana, reflecting her long practice in that region.

How therapy styles guide online work

Linda uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow what matters most to the person in session, creating space for them to set the agenda and pace. That approach helps when someone needs empathy, listening, and support while they decide on next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is used to identify patterns of thought and behavior and to try small experiments that change how people feel. CBT is often helpful for anxiety, depression, stress, and for working through eating and self-esteem concerns.

Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and builds motivation in a respectful way. It can be useful when deciding about career moves, health changes, or other life shifts.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed.

Confirm the available session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific online or in-person options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Licensed professionals, including this therapist, aim to match the format to what helps the person keep therapy consistent and useful.