Linda Young, MD, LCSW-C

Linda Young is a Maryland-based licensed clinician with 25 years of experience delivering mental health care across a range of settings. She began her career in Boston, where she provided community and facility-based mental health services for approximately seventeen years, and after relocating to Maryland in 2013 she continued working with children, adolescents, and adults facing emotional and behavioral challenges, including substance use concerns. Over the most recent five years her practice has focused on adults in substance abuse treatment programs, offering support for depression, anxiety, panic, social phobia, trauma, grief, life transitions, and adjustment to chronic medical conditions, as well as clients managing co-occurring mental health and substance use issues.

She holds the credentials MD and LCSW-C; MD is the abbreviation for Doctor of Medicine and LCSW-C indicates a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Certified. In addition, she earned a Master of Social Work from the Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies and Graphic Design from Simmons College. Her clinical work blends psychodynamic psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and inner child approaches, and she places value on educating clients about their specific concerns.

Linda approaches therapy with warmth and care, prioritizing an early therapeutic connection that supports collaborative treatment planning. From the first session she aims to build on each client’s strengths to develop practical strategies and goals tailored to their needs and circumstances.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Linda Young

Linda Young uses well-established approaches to guide online therapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and shift patterns of thinking and behavior that contribute to anxiety, depression, or problematic coping, and it is often used for stress, panic, and mood symptoms. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing traumatic experiences and reducing their ongoing impact, offering strategies to manage trauma-related responses and support recovery. Psychodynamic Therapy explores how past experiences and relationships shape current feelings and behaviors, helping clients gain insight into patterns that affect relationships, self-esteem, and emotional distress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is done collaboratively. Linda will work with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and recommend approaches or combinations of methods that best fit the presenting concerns and personal style.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and brief or ongoing contact can be arranged through live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to receive consistent support around work, caregiving, or mobility constraints, while maintaining continuity of care when life circumstances change.