Linda Comeau, LMFT

Linda Comeau is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Connecticut with three decades of experience across outpatient settings and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization. She brings a systems-oriented family therapy perspective to work with individuals, couples, and families, addressing concerns such as depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, parenting in both biological and blended families, career stress, emotional abuse, codependency, medical and addiction impacts on family members, grief, and life transitions. Her practice also supports people coping with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, caregiver strain, and a wide range of family problems.

Before becoming a therapist, Linda spent nearly twenty years as a public school teacher. She holds a B.S. in Education from the University of Connecticut (1973), an M.S. in Education from Central CT (1976), and an M.S. in Counseling with a focus on Marital and Family Therapy from Central CT (1992). Her clinical work is grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused approaches, combined with a strengths-based, warm, and encouraging style.

Linda emphasizes adequate self-care, supportive relationships, clear communication, healthy boundary setting, and realistic expectations as foundations for life satisfaction. She values collaboration with clients, helping them make practical shifts in attitudes and behaviors to restore balance. When clients are ready to take steps toward change, she offers steady encouragement and support throughout the process.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Linda brings Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into online work to help clients identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors - an approach often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy is used to explore relational patterns rooted in early connections and to improve trust, intimacy, and emotional safety in close relationships. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship that supports self-exploration, personal growth, and decision-making in a way that honors each person’s values and pace.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Linda collaborates with clients to determine which methods best match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjusts strategies as progress unfolds. Licensed professionals and therapists often combine techniques to create a tailored plan rather than relying on a single method.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video call or phone, and some work can continue through live chat or text-based messaging when that format better fits a client’s schedule. This makes it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit sessions into busy lives, and access support from home or other convenient locations.