Linda Zack
Gentle Gestalt counselling for present-moment change
About Linda
Linda Zack uses a humanistic Gestalt approach to help people who are feeling stuck or overwhelmed. She focuses on what is happening right now and helps clients notice thoughts, feelings and behaviour as they occur. Linda aims to be warm and approachable so people can talk honestly about difficult things.
She qualified in Gestalt psychotherapeutic counselling and is registered in the UK. Linda has around ten years of experience, including volunteer work before and after qualification.
Background and approach
That experience includes supporting people through grief and loss and helping with sleep problems such as insomnia. In sessions she brings simple, practical exercises and everyday metaphors to improve self-awareness. The work looks at how automatic patterns and habits show up in daily life and how those patterns can be changed.
Linda also helps people identify strengths and build resilience to meet immediate challenges. She works in the present moment rather than focusing on the past. That approach is used with stress, anxiety, low mood, anger and situations where someone feels stuck.
Linda also offers therapeutic coaching to create fresh perspectives and faster movement towards goals. Practical issues such as relationship strain, sexuality, compassion fatigue and eating concerns are included in her practice. She also has experience supporting people involved with BDSM, kink and alternative sex culture and people with hearing impairment.
Sessions aim to be non-judgemental and collaborative.
What Linda works with
Sessions & fees
Gestalt and practical online therapy options
Gestalt therapy focuses on present-moment awareness and helping people notice what they are thinking, feeling and doing as it happens. This work helps when someone feels stuck, overwhelmed by anxiety or low mood, or wants to understand recurring patterns. It uses simple exercises and metaphors to increase self-awareness and open up new ways of acting and relating.Therapeutic coaching borrows from those same ideas but is more goal-oriented. It helps people identify strengths, set short-term goals and try out new behaviours to make rapid progress. Both approaches suit people looking for practical change rather than long descriptive analysis.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and then suggest whether present-focused Gestalt work or coaching is the best fit. This decision is collaborative and can be revisited as needs change.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and body language cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging provide flexible, written ways to reflect and track progress between longer sessions.
| 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
Most often
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Hearing impaired
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
