Linda Giles, LPC, LCMHC

Linda Giles brings more than 28 years of psychotherapy experience and an accessible, down-to-earth manner to her work. She is known for an interactive style that combines genuine compassion with practical techniques to help people navigate difficult emotions and life transitions.

She holds licensure in both Virginia and North Carolina and uses the credentials LPC and LCMHC. LPC indicates licensure as a clinical professional counselor and LCMHC denotes licensure relevant to family and marriage counseling. Those credentials reflect a long-standing commitment to clinical practice across a broad range of concerns.

Her approach is intentionally eclectic and tailored to each person - drawing from cognitive restructuring and cognitive-behavioral methods, psychodynamic understanding, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused interventions as appropriate. That flexibility allows her to match interventions to the needs of the individual, child, adolescent, or older adult she is working with.

Linda has extensive experience addressing symptoms of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, anger management, basic coping skills, workplace difficulties, relationship and family concerns, and parenting challenges. She emphasizes simple, powerful techniques that help regulate uncomfortable emotional states, and she has worked clinically with people from early childhood through older adulthood, with particular expertise working with ages 5 to 75.

She recognizes how hard it can be to make the first call for help and strives to create a relaxed, reassuring first contact. Linda aims to support clients throughout the therapeutic process and to adapt her methods as their needs evolve.