About Lynnette
Lynnette Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker with 37 years of experience. She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Chicago and has worked in many settings. Lynnette focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions.
She encourages clients to set clear goals and to take an active role in their care. Her style is warm and practical. Sessions look at what is happening now and what can change.
Background and approach
She helps people build coping skills, improve problem-solving, and strengthen self-esteem. Conversations can include any topic that matters to the client, including physical, mental, or spiritual concerns. Lynnette uses straightforward approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing.
These approaches are used to break down problems into manageable steps and to support motivation for change. She also draws on Client-Centered and Mindfulness techniques to help people feel heard and to notice patterns that keep them stuck. Over her career she has worked with people dealing with trauma, grief, relationship strain, addiction, parenting stress, ADHD, bipolar and eating or sleeping problems.
She prioritizes practical strategies that fit into everyday life. Sessions can include skill practice, feedback, and tracking progress toward goals. Located in Indiana, Lynnette offers several session times including daytime, evening, and weekends.
She welcomes people who want a collaborative, goal-focused approach and who value a therapist who listens closely and helps them take steady steps forward.
Approach and Options for Online Therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and making the sessions reflect each person's values and pace. It helps people feel heard and supports them in finding their own solutions to stress, relationships, or self-esteem concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and teaches practical exercises to change those patterns; it can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and coping with life changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation and tolerating distress, useful for intense anger, relationship conflict, and coping with overwhelming feelings.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, needs, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Sessions often include setting clear goals, practicing skills, and reviewing what works so changes can be adjusted together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or audio is preferred, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging can help with ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, parenting, or other commitments while keeping treatment focused and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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