Dr. Linda Qualia, LPC

Dr. Linda Qualia is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 45 years of experience working with adult clients from diverse backgrounds. Over the course of her career she has partnered with people navigating both major and minor life transitions, processing trauma at different levels, managing grief and loss, coping with chronic illness and disability, addressing family and relationship violence, and working through anxiety, depression, and spiritual concerns. She views each person as seeing their life and challenges in a unique way and emphasizes the development of practical coping skills that draw on each individual's strengths and resources.

Her therapeutic style is collaborative and grounded in compassion, kindness, honesty, and empathy, with attention to building trust and integrity as the basis for an individualized counseling plan. Dr. Qualia uses a client-centered framework and integrates cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, solution-focused strategies, existential perspectives, interpersonal neurobiology, and body-centered approaches to tailor interventions to each person's needs. Her academic background includes a BA and MA in psychology and a PhD in Counselor Education, and she has provided leadership in developing a college counseling center as well as supervised and trained interns for over 20 years.

Her core areas of focus include stress, anxiety, grief, self-esteem, coping with life changes, trauma and abuse, depression, and compassion fatigue. Additional interests include aging and geriatric issues, chronic pain and illness, domestic violence, family of origin concerns, forgiveness, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, life purpose, and women's issues. As a Licensed Professional Counselor - a state credential for practicing mental health counseling - she brings decades of experience and a client-centered stance to her clinical work.