About Lynne
Lynne Finger is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to begin making changes. Lynne listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can try right away.
Her style blends insight and structure. She uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat in life. She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to tackle immediate problems and on trauma-informed and somatic methods when the body holds tension or distress.
Background and approach
Lynne has worked with people managing grief, divorce, career shifts, and retirement adjustment. She has extensive experience supporting clients with mood and anxiety disorders, trauma and abuse, and challenges like addiction or compassion fatigue. She also helps people with identity and intimacy concerns and family of origin issues.
Sessions are conversational and grounded. Lynne aims to create space for people to name painful feelings and to try small, realistic changes between sessions. She explains concepts plainly and suggests exercises that fit a person's daily life.
Based in North Carolina, Lynne brings two and a half decades of clinical practice to each client. Her approach values collaboration - she partners with people to set goals and adjust strategies as needed. The focus is on helping people regain a sense of control and move toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
Approaches that guide online work and healing
Many clients find cognitive behavioral therapy helpful for anxiety and depression because it focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors. CBT can produce concrete homework like tracking thoughts or testing a feared situation in small steps.Psychodynamic therapy looks at repeating patterns and early relationships that shape how someone reacts now. This approach can help people understand why certain triggers feel so intense and create space to choose different responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lynne will talk with each person about goals and try methods that match their needs. She adjusts strategies over time so the sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people speak face to face, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to use the format that feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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