Linda Charnes LMFT

About Me:

You are searching for help to make changes in your life. You are frustrated with your own attempts to solve your problems. You want to be happy. Welcome to the beginning of your healing journey.

I am a licensed marriage and family therapist who brings to my work with individuals, couples, families, and groups many years of experience as well as intelligence, warmth, humor, and enthusiasm. My mission is to help people improve relationships and to change unhappy and unhealthy patterns in their lives. Change is possible, but you cannot heal by repeating the same things that haven’t worked before.

Do You: Feel you are not getting what you really want?

¢ Feel overwhelmed by stress or unhappiness??¢ Feel dissatisfied with your relationship?
¢ Find yourself unable to find a relationship?
¢ Suffer from a destructive relationship with food or toward your body?
¢ Feel unhappy with your work life?
¢ Have parenting or family problems?
¢ Believe you are simply out of solutions?

My Areas of Specialty:

¢ Couple Therapy
¢ Parenting and Family Problems
Bulimia?
¢ Weight Reduction and Control
¢ Depression and Anxiety
¢ Career issues
I know these problems can seem impossible to overcome. Don’t give up hope. You have unknowingly trapped yourself into unhealthy patterns of thought and behavior you cannot fully see or understand. Our work together offers you a chance to change these protective, but self defeating behaviors. I guide you to establish and pursue what you really want in your life. I have earned the trust of many by guiding them through the gratifying, but challenging journey of psychotherapy.

My clients are usually high functioning people who are genuinely motivated to change, but simply do not know how. I will provide you with the expert guidance, inspiration, education, and support you need to discover your true capacity for happiness. This therapy can be an unbelievably powerful vehicle for change.

My Approach To Therapy:

• Family Systems Therapy
• Humanistic Psychology
• Internal Family Systems
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Object Relations
• Parent Work
• Psychodynamic
• Relational Psychotherapy
• Self Psychology
• Systems Theory /Therapy
• Transpersonal Psychotherapy

Groups I Work With:

Teens, Adults, Elders

Concerns & Issues I Deal With:

• Abandonment
• Abortion / Post Abortion Issues
• Addictions & Compulsions
• Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Attachment Issues
• Blended Family Issues
• Career Choice
• Caregiver Issues / Stress
• Child and/or Adolescent Issues
• Codependency / Dependency
• Communication Problems
• Compulsive Spending / Shopping
• Control Issues
• Creative Blocks
• Depression
• Divorce / Divorce Adjustment
• Eating & Food Issues
• Emotional Abuse
• Emotional Overwhelm
• Emptiness
• Family of Origin Issues
• Family Problems
• Fear
• Forgiveness
• Grief, Loss, & Bereavement
• Habits
• Helplessness / Victimhood
• Identity Issues
• Inadequacy
• Infidelity / Affair Recovery
• Irritability
• Isolation
• Life Purpose / Meaning / Inner-Guidance
• Midlife Crisis / Midlife Transition
• Oppositional & Defiant Behavior in Children & Teens
• Panic
• Parenting
• Post Partum Depression
• Post Traumatic Stress / Trauma
• Pre-Marital Counseling
• Relationships & Marriage
• Self-Care
• Self-Confidence
• Self-Criticism
• Self-Doubt
• Self-Esteem
• Self-Love
• Sensitivity to Criticism
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexuality / Sex Therapy
• Shame
• Stress
• Trust Issues
• Values Clarification
• Women's Issues
• Workplace Issues
• Worry
• Worthlessness