Linda Richardson is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice with over 15 years experience working with individuals, couples, and families to resolve challenges and difficulties in their lives. She enjoys working with a diverse population utilizing brief solution-focused, systemic, and cognitive behavioral therapy. Linda has extensive training in marriage and family therapy, grief/bereavement, sexual abuse, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.

Linda specializes many different presenting issues such as:

Substance Abuse: Mandatory and supervisory referrals, fit for duty evaluations, alcohol/drug evaluations, follow-up treatment for alcohol and drug abuse.

Depression/Anxiety: Treatment of depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, OCD, panic disorder.

Stress and Anger Management: Job stress, relationship, divorce, life transitioning, parenting, step-parenting, career change.

Couples Therapy: 15 years experience working with couples, including pre-marital counseling, marriage, gay-lesbian couples, and couples in crisis, including step-parenting, blended families, and post-divorce.

Child/Adolescent: Experience counseling children in adoption/foster care, juveniles involved in legal or court system, developmental disorders, ADHD, Autism/Aspergers, sexual abuse, behavioral and conduct issues.

Group Therapy: Experience facilitating groups for stress, substance abuse, dual diagnosis, sexual abuse survivors, aggression and anger management for juveniles, art therapy for juveniles, in various settings.