About Lindsay
Lindsay Smith is a licensed clinician in Maryland with eight years of professional experience. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, and she focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, family tensions, life changes, and depression. She meets people where they are and offers steady support as they take steps toward change.
Lindsay believes people are the experts on their own stories and draws attention to individual strengths.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely, asks practical questions, and helps clients set clear, realistic goals. The tone is warm and nonjudgmental, so clients can bring up what matters most without feeling rushed. Her day-to-day work mixes a few evidence-informed methods.
Lindsay uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. She adds mindfulness tools to help calm racing thoughts and manage stress in the moment. Lindsay also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people clarify values and commit to meaningful action.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are primary needs. She adapts sessions to what each person needs rather than following one fixed formula. Practical concerns like communication breakdowns, attachment and abandonment worries, body image, codependency, and issues around intimacy or commitment are commonly addressed.
Lindsay works with people on divorce and separation, blended family stress, guilt and shame, dissociation, and disruptive mood challenges. Her aim is to help clients develop skills they can use between sessions to feel steadier and more capable.
How Lindsay’s approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters and take small steps toward those values. It combines practical action with acceptance strategies to manage difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting patterns in thoughts and behaviors and practicing alternative responses to reduce anxiety and low mood. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower stress and bring calmer focus in the moment.Lindsay treats the choice of approach as a collaborative conversation. She will review goals, try methods that match a person’s needs, and adjust the plan as progress or challenges appear. Clients are encouraged to say what works and what doesn’t so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions suit deeper conversations and skills work that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone calls can be a good alternative when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Shorter check-ins and skill reminders work well by live chat or text messaging between sessions to keep practice on track and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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