Linda Skoug, LPC

Linda Skoug is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin with 13 years of clinical experience supporting people through emotional challenges and life transitions. She practices with a trauma-informed, compassionate stance that helps clients explore difficult memories, manage anxiety and depression, and strengthen relationships while building greater self-understanding and resilience.

Her work is grounded in practical, evidence-informed methods and an emphasis on attachment and relational patterns. Linda has experience working with a range of concerns including stress, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, addictions, grief, parenting and family struggles, eating and food-related issues, mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression, ADHD, and the challenges that arise during major life changes like divorce or midlife transitions.

Clients find her approach affirming and collaborative - she creates a thoughtful space for processing attachment wounds, addressing abandonment or adoption-related issues, and developing skills for emotional regulation and healthier connections. Linda integrates cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based perspectives, and hypnotherapy when appropriate to tailor care to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. She aims to walk alongside clients as they build coping strategies, repair relationships, and move toward more authentic, stabilized functioning.

Approaches for Online Care and Therapeutic Work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present-day connections and emotional responses. In practice it helps people understand patterns of closeness and distance, heal attachment wounds, and build more secure ways of relating to partners, family members, and themselves.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers concrete tools to identify unhelpful thinking, shift perspective, and develop coping skills for anxiety, depression, stress, and everyday challenges.

Hypnotherapy uses focused relaxation and guided suggestion to support changes in mindset and behavior when appropriate. It can be a complementary tool for addressing habits, trauma responses, and stress management within a broader treatment plan.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Linda collaborates with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt methods so that therapy fits the individual rather than forcing a single model onto every situation.

Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for scheduling and for maintaining continuity of care from diverse settings. These formats make it easier to access a licensed professional when in-person visits are difficult, allowing therapy to fit around work, family, and other life demands.