Linda Sawrey

Linda Sawrey is a PACFA counsellor with five years' experience based in Australia. She works with stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief and career questions, and supports people thinking about life purpose. She offers straightforward, conversational therapy that helps people make practical changes and understand what matters next.

Linda draws on several approaches so sessions feel flexible. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for managing anxious thoughts and unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based and Client-Centred ideas guide conversations about relationships, abandonment and shame. Narrative techniques help people rewrite the stories that hold them back.

Her background includes long experience in healthcare as a registered nurse and roles in emergency care, patient safety, and risk management. That experience shapes how she works with chronic pain, illness and carer stress. It also informs her approach to grief, trauma and workplace burnout.

Clients can expect practical tools alongside reflective conversation. Sessions may include tracking patterns, testing new behaviours between meetings, and gentle work on emotional responses. Linda also notes neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed ways of working when these are needed.

She lives in the Gold Coast Hinterland and blends nature into her practice. That context informs her interest in reconnecting people to what keeps them steady. To begin, readers are invited to follow the site steps to match and schedule a first session.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions

Linda often combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. ACT focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when thoughts feel difficult; it can help with anxiety, stress and life-purpose questions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and early security, helping people understand how abandonment or attachment issues affect current relationships.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with a person about their needs, goals and preferences and decide together which methods to try. That collaborative planning can change as therapy progresses and new concerns emerge.

The biography notes she offers services by online and phone to make access easier. Confirm the specific session options available before booking. Online or phone sessions can make it simpler to fit meetings into a workday, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and accommodate lower bandwidth or no-camera options. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt exercises, homework and pacing for remote sessions so practical progress remains possible.