About Lindsay
Lindsay McClernan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers calm, straightforward support for people facing trauma, relationship strain, addiction, grief, and major life changes. Lindsay keeps sessions practical and human.
She listens first, then helps clients name what matters and set small goals. She uses methods that build better communication, reduce intense emotions, and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Her work often centers on healing from past hurts, including abandonment, attachment disruptions, and experiences of abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care questions, blended family stress, caregiver burnout, and the challenges of neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Over 11 years in practice in Wisconsin, Lindsay has worked with people managing depression, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and substance concerns.
She draws on approaches like attachment-focused work, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical skills, and EMDR when trauma processing is needed. Her LCSW credential reflects her social work training and clinical experience. Sessions are offered in English and available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Lindsay frames therapy as a collaboration that matches methods to each person’s needs and pace. She aims to help people rebuild connection, reduce overwhelming feelings, and move toward clearer direction.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-based work focuses on understanding how early relationships affect current bonds. In sessions this looks like talking about patterns in close relationships and practicing new ways to connect and communicate to feel safer and more understood.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. It is useful for managing anxiety, stress, and low mood through step-by-step skill building and small behavioral experiments.
EMDR is a trauma-informed method that can help people process painful memories and reduce the emotional intensity associated with them. When appropriate, EMDR techniques are integrated to support recovery from traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lindsay aims to collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they review what feels helpful and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video is helpful for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can suit people who need to be hands-free or have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, progress notes, and when someone prefers written support between sessions. These options make regular care easier to fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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