About Lindsay
Lindsay Van Gorder is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Arizona. She brings 11 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. Her work includes clients who have faced trauma, sexual assault, and HIV/AIDS, and she often supports people navigating grief and life changes.
She uses a warm and interactive style in sessions. Conversations are respectful and down-to-earth. Lindsay avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on the person, not a diagnosis.
Background and approach
Lindsay adapts her approach to what each person needs. She draws on client-centered and solution-focused methods to set realistic goals and build practical steps. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships affect current patterns.
When trauma is part of someone's story, she incorporates eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, into the work. That approach is used alongside motivational interviewing when people want help with substance use or changing difficult behaviors. Sessions focus on clear, doable work.
Lindsay helps people build coping tools, improve communication, and manage strong emotions like anger or shame. She aims to leave clients with strategies they can use between sessions and a plan for moving forward.
Approaches that fit online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current reactions. It helps people understand why they get stuck in certain ways and supports building safer, more stable connections. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the client lead the pace of change. It is useful for people who need a nonjudgmental space to process emotion and make decisions. EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories that keep causing distress and can reduce the intensity of those memories when used alongside other supports.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Lindsay will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then suggest methods that fit those needs. The decision is collaborative, and treatment is adjusted over time based on how the client is doing.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and work closely in real time. Phone can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text work well for shorter check-ins, ongoing problem-solving, or when writing helps someone process thoughts. These options make scheduling easier and allow therapy to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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