About Linn
Linn Aosjia is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 36 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Linn aims to create a calm, supportive space where clients can make practical changes and feel steadier day to day. Her approach mixes practical tools and deeper reflection.
She uses methods that help clients notice what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. Sessions combine skills for coping with urgent symptoms and conversations that look at patterns that keep problems repeating.
Linn has worked across many life challenges related to family and relationships, including adoption and foster care concerns, blended family issues, attachment and abandonment struggles, and family of origin matters. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and recovery after natural or human-caused disasters.
Therapeutic tools Linn often draws on include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness practices, hypnotherapy, motivational interviewing, and existential ideas about meaning and choice. These approaches are used to help with communication problems, codependency, divorce and separation, emptiness, and forgiveness work.
Based in California and licensed as an LMFT, Linn offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Her style is warm, direct, and collaborative, aimed at helping people find clearer direction and more steady emotional footing.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and create steadier moments when emotions spike. It often supports people who want better day-to-day coping and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Linn will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and comfort. That might mean mixing ACT with mindfulness exercises or adding motivational interviewing to build momentum toward change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you read facial cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or you need a quicker check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief support, homework check-ins, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, maintain continuity while traveling, or use shorter formats for check-ins and skill practice. A licensed professional will help tailor the mix of formats to what helps you make steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English