About Lindsey
Lindsey Thomas is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 17 years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and helping people adjust to major life changes. Lindsey communicates in clear, direct language and aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts her approach to each person's needs. Sessions include practical strategies for managing panic, obsessive worries, and specific fears such as phobias.
Background and approach
Lindsey also helps people facing postpartum depression, attachment concerns, and challenges after adoption or foster placement. Lindsey’s work reflects long experience in varied clinical settings and with diverse life situations. She draws on 17 years helping people navigate divorce, separation, grief, and caregiver stress.
This background shapes how she plans treatment and sets realistic goals with clients. Her international living experience informs a culturally aware style. Lindsey has spent time living and working in Italy, England, and Botswana, and she currently lives abroad while serving Michigan clients.
That schedule allows her to offer some evening and weekend hours suited to Michigan time zones. Practical steps are a focus in sessions. Lindsey offers tools to manage panic attacks and compulsive thoughts, improve communication, and rebuild confidence after trauma.
She asks questions, listens, and works together with each person to find what helps. To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability. Lindsey uses video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging for ongoing care.
How Lindsey Uses Evidence-Based Techniques Online
Many of Lindsey’s sessions draw on practical, evidence-based techniques that teach clear skills. One common approach focuses on breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to reduce panic and phobia responses. This helps people face specific fears at a manageable pace and learn new reactions to those triggers.Another approach emphasizes behavioral experiments and habit changes to address obsessive thoughts and compulsive routines. These steps break problems into small tasks, track results, and adjust strategies based on what works. For mood and adjustment challenges she uses problem-focused planning and behavioral activation to rebuild routines and increase meaningful activity.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lindsey will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. She regularly checks in and adapts the plan based on what’s helping and what isn’t.
Online formats offer flexible ways to work together. Video calls support face-to-face dialogue and work well for skills practice. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging let clients check in between sessions, ask brief questions, or use shorter reflections when time is limited. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still working toward clear goals.
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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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