About Lindsey
Lindsey Thomas is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, and the challenges of parenting. Lindsey uses practical, person-centered care and adapts conversations to each person's needs.
Lindsey helps people navigate big life changes like starting college, moving, or adjusting to new roles. She offers straightforward coping strategies for panic, phobias, obsessions and compulsions, and mood swings.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talk-based problem solving and tools to reduce intense reactions. Her background includes work in a variety of clinical settings across multiple countries. Living and working overseas broadened her perspective and shaped her approach to culture and transition.
Lindsey draws on that experience when supporting people facing adoption, attachment concerns, postpartum issues, or caregiver stress. In sessions she pays attention to communication patterns, feelings of isolation, and struggles with body image or gender identity. She helps people untangle guilt, shame, and grief that often follow separation or divorce.
Lindsey aims to make each plan practical and tailored to daily life. People can expect steady, respectful support focused on small, achievable changes. Lindsey values clear goals and regular check-ins to track progress.
The work is collaborative: she listens, offers techniques, and adjusts the plan as needs evolve.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques Lindsey uses focus on practical tools and clear steps. One common approach is structured talk therapy that helps identify thought and behavior patterns keeping anxiety and mood problems active. This method teaches coping skills and step-by-step plans for managing panic, phobias, or obsessive thoughts. Another helpful technique emphasizes skills training for managing strong emotions and improving daily functioning. That work typically involves learning simpler ways to handle stress, build routines, and practice small experiments that reduce avoidance and isolation. Finding the right approach happens together. Lindsey collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts the plan over time and checks in regularly to see what’s working and what needs changing. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls work well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, quick coping reminders, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care across different schedules and time zones.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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