Linda Mather (nee Spencer), BACP

Linda Mather (nee Spencer) is a psychotherapist with twenty six years of professional experience working across a wide range of issues. She combines clinical practice with roles as a trainer, clinical supervisor, and author of counselling textbooks and self-help books, bringing both practical and educational perspectives to her work.

Her practice is integrative, meaning she is trained in several therapeutic models and adapts her approach to meet each client’s particular needs. Her work draws on cognitive-behavioural, humanistic, psychodynamic, solution-focused and transactional analysis methods so that conversations and treatment plans are shaped around the priorities presented by the client. She currently works with children and adolescents, with particular experience supporting issues such as self-harm, emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, communication difficulties, bullying, loss and friendship problems.

Over the years she has supported adults with depression, anxiety, relationship and parenting difficulties, career challenges, obsessive-compulsive patterns, substance misuse and the effects of trauma or emotional abuse. She also works with needs related to intimacy, addictions, grief, eating concerns, anger, self-esteem, bipolar disorder and many other life transitions and stresses.

She holds BACP accreditation - the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the United Kingdom - and offers a warm, understanding therapeutic relationship and a supportive space to explore and work through difficulties. She tailors the pace and focus of therapy to each individual, guiding clients through the often challenging first steps toward change.

Approaches, Collaboration and Flexible Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients clarify their values and take committed steps toward a more meaningful life while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings rather than struggling with them - it is often used for anxiety, stress and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and can be especially helpful for intimacy, relationship difficulties and attachment-related concerns, guiding clients to understand and reshape relational responses.

Linda uses these approaches alongside other methods to match the work to each person’s needs. Finding the right therapeutic style is part of the process and she will collaborate with clients to decide which approach or combination of approaches best fits their goals, preferences and circumstances as therapy progresses.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, over the phone, through live chat or by text-based messaging - making it easier to attend from different locations and at times that suit busy lives. These options support continuity of care for international clients and for those who need adaptable ways to access registered professionals and therapists.