“Love is a feeling. Loving is a skillset.”

Toward a
Lasting
Love

Learn Love Skills to navigate challenges,
deepen intimacy, and strengthen your relationship.

Individual Coaching & Counseling • working with couples

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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.

Click HERE for Linda’s BCC Info

What I offer

Coaching & Counseling

We will discover together the inner forces that have created and maintained distressing patterns, safely removing obstacles to how you want your life to be.

Couples & Intensives

We know that the human journey is actually about both struggle and joy. It is about confronting obstacles as well as developing inner strength and resilience.

Classes

Throughout the year, I offer themed workshops for women and couples, an ongoing study group, and presentations at Rancho La Puerta some 7 times a year.

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.

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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

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Rancho La Puerta

Since 2006, Linda has been a featured presenter at Rancho La Puerta, voted The World’s Best Destination Spa by Travel + Leisure magazine for the past decade!

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