- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Attachment-based work
- Narrative therapy techniques
About Linda
Linda Sawrey is a PACFA counsellor with five years' experience working in Australia. She helps people who are carrying stress, anxiety, relationship pain, trauma and grief. She also works with career concerns and with people struggling with guilt and shame.
Linda offers sessions by phone and online to make access easier for busy lives. She uses straightforward talking, reflective exercises and practical tools rather than jargon. Sessions are informed by her background in nursing and long work in healthcare settings.
In the room she draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based work, Client-Centred methods and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She also uses narrative ideas to help people make sense of difficult events and patterns. Her style is pragmatic and grounded in the body-mind connections she learned as a nurse.
Linda has worked across emergency and clinical settings for three decades as a nurse before specialising in counselling and psychotherapy. That experience shapes how she supports people with chronic illness, caregiving stress and complex medical histories. She often links mental health and physical health when those concerns overlap.
She lives on the Gold Coast Hinterland where nature and horses are part of her life. That setting influences her interest in nature-based and animal-assisted work, though practical speech and reflective exercises remain central to sessions. People often come to her to talk through guilt, shame, attachment wounds and the ripple effects those experiences have on daily life.
How her approaches translate to online work
Linda combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with Attachment-Based work and Client-Centred methods in online sessions. ACT focuses on noticing painful thoughts and feelings while taking actions that reflect personal values; it can help when guilt or shame gets in the way of living. Attachment-Based work looks at early relationship patterns and how they affect current trust, closeness and reactions to rejection. Client-Centred methods put the person's experience at the heart of sessions, using reflective listening and gentle pacing to help people feel heard.Choosing an approach is part of the therapeutic process. She will talk with clients about what feels most useful and adapt methods to a person's goals and preferences. That collaboration means the plan can shift as things change or new needs appear.
The biography names online and phone sessions as ways she provides care, so confirm which specific formats are available when you book. Online or phone sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. If you want to use online sessions, ask about the current options and how she typically runs a first appointment to find the best fit.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
5+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship problems, trauma and abuse, grief and career concerns, and also supports people dealing with guilt and shame.
How does she approach guilt and shame?
She uses a mix of ACT, attachment-focused conversations and narrative work to help people understand and respond differently to painful self-judgements.
What is her professional background?
She has five years' experience as a counsellor and many years of prior work as a registered nurse in emergency and healthcare roles.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is PACFA registered and practises in Australia, living on the Gold Coast Hinterland.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not taking international clients.
What session formats are offered?
The original biography mentions online and phone sessions; confirm current session options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.