LPC, 11 years of experience
Hello and Welcome! I'm Linton Hester and thank you for your courage to seek help. As a Licensed Counselor with 7 years of experience, I have worked in multiple settings from in-patient, community-based settings to now private. The demographic of cases I have helped varies from adults, children, families and couples ranging from anxiety, depression, psychosis, marriage, family challenges to the most personal of issues. My focus and goal is YOUR goal. With that in mind, I am here to help you to LIVE BETTER NOW by partnering with you to meet your needs in this most important moment in your life! How can I be of service to you?
During the initial session, I look to help the client feel comfortable, safe and able to be themselves without judgement and without shame. My approach is calm, family-oriented style conversation that includes an assessment (information gathering), building that connection and laying out my approach with step-by-step plan of how I walk through sessions and the therapeutic process.
My greatest strength is that fact that I am very approachable, transparent, brutally honest and in-tuned with my clients. I infuse my passion, emotional intelligence, openness and acceptance of all people with all challenges that they show up being just who they are without apology.
Anger, depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide are all based on internal/external culprits. Let me help you identify such agents, structure your thoughts and life and develop healthy boundaries to maintain resilience by combating such maladies through a brutally honest and cathartic approach based on practical in-sessions tools for out-of-session living.
I utilize EMDR after identifying client's abreaction (emotional threshold) that targets disturbances in an effort to untether the client from the issues that has become an impediment to their daily lifestyle.
I utilize CBT to address how the seat of the unhealthy thinking styles negatively impacts outlook and engagement with self and the world around.
I provide ways to excavate the unconscious agents that influences the interaction of the client with interpersonal, environmental and social lifestyle by exposing and addressing the challenges with their emotional and behavioral patterns.
I work with couples to help with relationship reparation by assessing problem areas, incorporating a didactic and triadic model and utilizing clear and practical tools to help reach the goal of better living.
My approach is to identify the emotion or thoughts that is conflated with semantics of blaming, flooding, poor communication and misunderstanding and exploring the emotions to help bring clarity and intent into a difficult and emotionally charged situation by honing in on the underlining emotion rather than the default feelings of anger, fear and other primary emotions.
5 ratings with written reviews
August 14, 2025
Highly recommend, was such a big help in only one session! Very good listener and makes it his focus to really hear you and map out solutions. Can not wait until my next session!
August 13, 2025
We had a great first couple's therapy session. We both felt heard and Dr. Linton was very receptive of our feelings/situations we described to him. Dr. Linton set the tone and made it evident to not take sides but mainly to help us with the goals of our marriage! Highly recommend!
July 17, 2025
I enjoyed my first therapy session with Linton, he made me feel comfortable the whole time and more than most , he actually listened to me .