About Lynnette
Lynnette Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker with 37 years of experience. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Chicago and works from Indiana. She welcomes people who are beginning therapy and those who have tried it before, and she focuses on practical steps toward feeling better.
Lynnette uses straightforward methods to help people manage anxiety, depression, and stress. She guides clients through problem-solving and decision-making.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing trauma, grief, relationship strain, and challenges like addiction or attention-related concerns. Her approach emphasizes the person in front of her. Sessions are collaborative - clients set goals and measure progress together with the therapist.
Common tools include talking through thoughts and behaviors, practicing new coping skills, and building everyday routines that support better sleep, eating, and self-esteem. Lynnette draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing along with client-centered and mindfulness-based ideas. She teaches practical exercises you can use between sessions.
She also works with people on communication, parenting stress, and career or life transitions. Many clients appreciate that she considers physical, mental, and spiritual dimensions of life. She keeps session times flexible, offering daytime, evening, and weekend appointments.
Lynnette accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on the person and their goals. It involves listening closely and letting clients shape the direction of sessions while the therapist offers support and reflection. This approach helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns so daily anxiety, low mood, or sleep problems can improve. CBT is useful for stress, panic, phobias, and mood challenges.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, combines skill-building in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It helps people who struggle with intense emotions or relationship conflicts by offering clear skills to manage moments of crisis and improve interactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they try techniques, review what helps, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients share thoughts between sessions and get ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between meetings.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Lynnette address?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What is her professional background?
What are her credentials and where is she based?
Which languages are supported in sessions?
What formats are used for sessions?
How does billing and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
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
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.