About Linda
Linda Hazel is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience practicing in Tennessee. She draws on a long clinical background to help people facing addictions, trauma, relationship struggles, and intimacy concerns.
Background and approach
Linda speaks English and works with both local and international clients. She believes clients know their stories best and brings a respectful, listening approach to each session.
Conversations focus on strengths and practical steps people can try between meetings. Linda aims to make the first steps feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Her work often addresses family and relationship patterns, attachment wounds, and the effects of trauma or abuse. She also supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness or pain, and difficult life transitions such as divorce or aging-related concerns.
Sessions include clear, goal-oriented talk and exercises tailored to the person's needs. Linda uses a mix of approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, and attachment-based ideas.
She adapts methods to what a person prefers and what fits the situation. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each individual.
Practical matters are discussed up front, including session format and how therapy will fit into daily life. Linda encourages questions and partners with people to set realistic goals they can notice over time.
Therapeutic approaches for online healing and connection
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It teaches values-based actions so someone can move toward what matters despite hard emotions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early and current relationship patterns to understand how people connect, react, and seek closeness; it can help with trust, intimacy, and repeating negative patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize acceptance skills, change-focused techniques, or emotionally-focused strategies as the main path forward.
Online sessions can be done by video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which makes scheduling easier for busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone calls can fit a short break at work, and text or chat are useful for quick check-ins or when typing feels clearer. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with alongside daily responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English