Individual Coaching & Counseling • working with couples

Linda Carroll
MS, LMFT, BCC
Every relationship has challenges, whether full of promise and hope, in a crisis, or just needing a tune-up.
I know how fragile the ties that hold us together can be. Frequently, I see couples who think they want out of the relationship when they are just looking for a way out of the difficulty, stress, and lack of healthy communication.
As a licensed marriage and family therapist, I offer my four decades of expertise to coach you in improving, deepening, and strengthening your relationship.
Using a variety of modalities—including Imago relationship therapy—I will help you with communication skills training, self-understanding, and learning practical tools for bringing empathy and goodwill into your relationship.
I welcome the opportunity to help you discover your next growth path, and to help you to safely and wisely reach your heart’s destination.
What I offer
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has been working as a psychotherapist for more than 40 years, a teacher, and a Board Certified Coach.
I am the author of Love Cycles: The Five Essential Stages of Lasting Love, which has been translated into several languages, and its highly-acclaimed companion book, Love Skills.
To reach as many people as possible about the steps to true intimacy, I frequently present my “Love Cycles” program at the renowned Rancho la Puerta wellness retreat and other venues across the country. I also speak about relationship issues on radio programs and podcasts, and I write for many online magazines.
Like anyone with whom I work, my own life has been filled with complexity. My calling is to use that complexity to help my clients claim their own stories and find their own paths.
Read more about me HERE.
Subscribe to Linda’s Newsletter
Sign up here for my regular newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox, and receive a small gift.


An Intensive Session for the Busy Couple
Resolve complicated issues. Heal and grow your relationship with a Couples’ Intensive Program. A series of sessions over two to three consecutive days, located in Corvallis, Oregon.
“Spend a weekend with Linda Carroll, and you’ll discover more ways to connect than you thought possible. I fell in love with my wife again and again, and it lasted long after our intensive ended.” ⏤ Sam Keen, Philosopher & Writer
Recent Blogs
Looking for Light Without Closing Our Eyes
By the time we reached our house last night, nothing had changed in the headlines. The troubles remain. The fractures remain. But something had shifted in me.
Why I’m Tired of Gratitude Journals
But now what? What do you do with the thankfulness of having more than enough, other than keep endlessly reflecting on it.
Monsters or Miracles?
You feel yourself sinking but don’t know how to get out. Knowing this would go nowhere, we each back off, silently and righteously indignant.







