Linda Spielman, LCSW

Linda Spielman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 23 years of experience who works primarily with adolescents, young adults, and parents. She combines intensive training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy - including education through the Linehan Institute - with a trauma-informed psychodynamic perspective to address complex emotional and behavioral challenges.

Her career includes co-founding the first DBT practice in Austin, Texas, where she provided specialized services from 2005 to 2024. Linda's warm, authentic style helps people approach sensitive topics, reduce emotional distress, and build practical skills for lasting change. She has also shared her expertise more broadly through media and training work, producing the instructional DVD "Teens who Self-Injure" after a guest appearance on The Today Show and training hundreds of school counselors, teachers, and nurses on self-injury and related issues.

Linda pursued three years of post-graduate study focused on Family Systems, Mindfulness, and Attachment therapy, which inform her approach to working with families and individuals facing relationship and developmental concerns. She is currently based in North Carolina and practices with an emphasis on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, and coping with life changes.