About Lindsay
Lindsay Pennell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with nine years of experience in the counseling field. She works with adults who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, substance use concerns, and related life challenges. Her approach is warm and direct, aimed at helping people feel heard and begin practical change.
She has focused much of her clinic work on adults with mental health diagnoses and substance use problems.
Background and approach
Lindsay helps people manage panic and social anxiety, cope with grief and trauma, and address low self-esteem and relationship strain. She also supports those working through career stress, parenting pressures, and sleep troubles. Lindsay’s style is collaborative and strengths-based.
She uses motivational interviewing to help people find internal motivation, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness to increase present-moment awareness. Sessions emphasize small, achievable steps rather than big leaps. Conversations in sessions are intended to be open and nonjudgmental.
Lindsay tailors each plan to the person’s needs and learning style, helping them set realistic goals and build skills that fit daily life. She also addresses addiction-related issues like smoking or vaping cessation and drug and alcohol concerns. Taking the first step can feel hard, and Lindsay aims to offer steady support during that process.
She helps people break problems into manageable pieces and stays focused on practical progress and resilience.
How evidence-based methods work online
Many of Lindsay’s approaches focus on practical skills people can use between sessions. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve sleep by practicing new habits. Motivational interviewing helps people find personal reasons to change, which is useful for addictions, smoking or vaping cessation, and lifestyle shifts. Mindfulness teaches simple attention practices to lessen reactivity and improve focus.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Lindsay works with each person to match strategies to their goals, needs, and daily routine. She checks in about what is and isn’t working and adjusts the plan so it fits the person’s pace and learning style.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow visual connection for deeper conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short updates, problem-solving, or coaching-style support into a busy day. Together these formats make therapy more flexible and easier to keep up with regular progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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