Linda Mather (nee Spencer)
Experienced psychotherapist and author
About Linda
Linda Mather (nee Spencer) has worked as a psychotherapist for 26 years. She also writes counselling and self-help books, and supervises and trains other professionals. Linda is based in the United Kingdom and meets people in ways that fit their lives and schedules.
Her practice is integrative. That means she draws on several approaches and shapes sessions to the person in front of her. Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on practical next steps to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Clients come with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy-related issues. Linda also helps with parenting worries, career strain, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem and coping with major life changes. She has worked with people living with bipolar disorder and with compassion fatigue.
Her work also addresses more specialised difficulties such as attachment issues, adoption and foster care matters, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, autism and Asperger syndrome, and communication and commitment problems. The focus is on helping each person clarify goals and try manageable steps towards them. Sessions are collaborative and straightforward.
Linda aims to provide a warm, respectful space to talk things through and to plan realistic changes. She accepts international clients and works in English.
What Linda works with
How Linda works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating and feeling safe with others. It can help with intimacy concerns, attachment issues and long-standing relationship patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before. Together they will pick or blend approaches and adjust them as therapy progresses to suit the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or times when written reflection helps more than speaking. These options give flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- 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-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 26 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
