Linda Benvenuti , LMHC

Linda Benvenuti is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Rhode Island with 20 years of clinical and coaching experience. She blends practical, evidence-informed strategies with a strengths-based outlook, helping people navigate stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, career concerns, and the many transitions life brings. Linda draws on positive psychology and cognitive approaches to support clients working through relationship and family challenges, parenting concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, and attention-related issues such as ADHD.

Her work has included supporting college students across educational levels, individuals facing divorce and separation, caregivers managing ongoing stress, and people coping with chronic illness, pain, or significant life change. She also brings experience assisting clients with attachment and abandonment issues, body image, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and the search for life purpose. Linda emphasizes practical coping skills, communication improvement, and rebuilding confidence so clients can move toward clearer goals and daily functioning.

Linda offers collaborative, client-centered care grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques. She provides support to a diverse range of people and values inclusion and neurodiversity as part of her approach to helping others find more fulfilling, healthy, and resilient ways of living.

Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care

Linda uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and to teach practical skills for managing anxiety, stress, and mood. This approach helps clients break problems into manageable steps and develop new coping strategies that improve daily functioning.

She also incorporates positive psychology principles that focus on identifying strengths, building resilience, and cultivating motivation and purpose. These methods support clients working on self-esteem, career direction, and life transitions by emphasizing what is already working and expanding on it.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Linda works with each person to understand their goals, preferences, and needs, and together they determine which techniques fit best and how to adapt them over time.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for busy schedules, remote living situations, and different communication styles. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access licensed professionals from a range of locations while tailoring interaction style to what feels most effective for the client.