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Linda Flynn

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Linda Flynn, LCSW

Kentucky

LCSW - trauma, addiction, anger

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Key details

  • CredentialsLCSW
  • LicenseLCSW, Kentucky / 1472
  • NPI1154929362
  • Experience15 years
  • LanguagesEnglish
  • LocationKentucky

About

  • Addiction recovery
  • Relational trauma
  • CBT and DBT skills

About Linda

Linda Flynn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Kentucky with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on recovery from narcissistic abuse, addiction, depression, and related trauma. Linda helps people who are dealing with anger, trust issues, or the fallout from long-term emotional manipulation.

Her work centers on rebuilding self-trust and emotional steadiness after invalidating relationships. She supports people who have experienced gaslighting, control, or chronic relational stress. In sessions she looks at how those patterns affect mood, behavior, and relationships today.

For addiction concerns she attends to the emotional wounds under substance use. She helps people develop coping skills that feel practical and usable in daily life. The aim is more consistent functioning rather than quick fixes.

Therapy combines attachment-based ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and DBT skills when helpful. She also draws on client-centered and existential perspectives to clarify values and choices. Sessions are collaborative and focused on concrete steps clients can try between meetings.

Linda works with a broad range of problems that often overlap: anxiety, depression, eating and body image issues, career strain, caregiving stress, and intimacy-related concerns. She also addresses complex presentations like bipolar symptoms, co-morbidity, and personality-related patterns such as avoidant or antisocial tendencies.

People who come to her usually want straightforward strategies and clearer emotional boundaries. The focus is practical: understand what keeps old patterns in place, practice different responses, and build steadier ways of relating to self and others.

How sessions work

How Linda blends proven approaches for online work

Attachment-based therapy focuses on patterns from early relationships and how those patterns show up in current connections. It helps people notice trust and safety issues and practice different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and change behaviors that keep problems going.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Linda will collaborate with each person to identify which methods suit their needs and goals. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the focus over time so sessions stay practical and relevant.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - shorter check-ins can be scheduled around breaks, video allows face-to-face conversation, and phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver the same therapeutic tools used in person, such as CBT exercises, DBT skills practice, and attachment-focused conversation, while keeping sessions focused on day-to-day improvements.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCompassion fatigue

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAvoidant personalityBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDisruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)DissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHospice and end-of-life counselingInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMidlife crisisMood disordersNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSex addictionSexual assault and abuseSexualitySmoking / vaping cessationSocial anxiety and phobiaTraumatic brain injuryWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Existential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

15+ years

Listed in

Kentucky

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she address?

She works with addiction, relationship and trauma-related concerns including narcissistic abuse, depression, anxiety, anger, and intimacy-related issues.

What is her therapy style like?

She uses a collaborative, trauma-informed approach that combines attachment ideas with cognitive-behavioral and DBT tools when helpful.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 15 years of clinical experience working with complex relational trauma, addiction recovery, and mood concerns.

What are her credentials and where is she based?

She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) licensed in Kentucky and practices from that state.

Can I work with her if I live outside the US?

Sessions are offered to international clients as indicated by her profile; sessions are provided in English.

What session formats does she offer?

The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options before booking.

How much do sessions cost?

Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

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Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.

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