The Best Preparation For Tomorrow Is Doing Your Best Today
Welcome! Whatever brought you here today, I’m glad you took the brave first step in seeking help for your mental health needs. I know how difficult that step is, and I’m so happy that you’re here.
Do persistent negative thoughts leave you feeling down and unmotivated? Do you struggle with how to balance emotional health with your everyday life? Are you seeking help with stress, anxiety, and big life transitions? Do your racing thoughts and chronic anxiety leave you feeling worn out? Are you looking for coping skills that work? Do you want a therapist who empowers you?
I provide therapy for teenagers and adults at my private practice in Fort Washington, PA. I’m currently offering virtual sessions, completely confidential and HIPAA compliant as well as in-person sessions to best meet the needs of clients.
What you’ll get is therapy that is effective in treating stress and anxiety, building self esteem, navigating life transitions and creating balanced emotional health. I want to help you work through your negative thoughts and overwhelming emotions.
You’re not alone. We all benefit from having a consistent, supportive person in our lives. I’ll cheer you on and also offer concrete skills to help you through your challenges. Together we can face and conquer the issues that make life difficult to manage and bring joy into your world.
AbouT LINDSAY
As a former high school counselor and current clinician, I have 15 years experience helping teens and adults navigate stress, anxiety, low self esteem, depression and other mental health issues. I'm passionate about helping teens and adults decrease negative symptoms while empowering them to face difficult situations and apply healthy coping strategies.
I take connection with my clients seriously. I work hard to build trust. When working with my teen clients, I know how important it can feel to just have someone hear them out. They need someone that will try to see things from their perspective and can empathize with their experience. Feeling validated in therapy can build strong rapport and give clients the courage to make healthy and effective changes.
Emotions can be intense and hard to understand, especially during the teen years. We will work together to understand your emotions and regulate them, giving a feeling of control and balance. We will build strong self-esteem that can help to empower you to navigate through tough situations and maintain healthy relationships.
When I work with young adults, I focus a lot on identity, purpose, and transition. Many of my young adult clients are grappling with graduating from college and entering the working world. I provide therapy for life transitions. They’re figuring out where they fit in and who they are. Young adults want to be taken seriously. Their negative thoughts and self-doubt start creeping in. I’m here to help them navigate those thoughts and the feelings that come with them. I provide coping skills to deal with the overwhelm of being a young adult.
Life can be heavy and overwhelming at times and many of my adult clients struggle with finding time for self care and feeling present when their minds are cluttered with huge to do lists. I help my adult clients learn that it is not selfish to prioritize mental health and self care in order to live a life that is more fulfilling and enjoyable.
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I specialize in working with teens and young adults dealing with:
School stress
Anxiety and depression
Issues with time management and organization
Transitions from high school and college into the next phase of their journey
Finding identity and purpose
Struggles with self-doubt
Navigating relationships
Overwhelm
I also work with adults struggling with:
Persistent negative thoughts and low self esteem
Balancing careers, home lives, relationships, and self care
Stress and anxiety
Depression and low mood
Past trauma that make it hard to regulate emotions and heal
And more!
I offer individual and group sessions, pscyhoeducational workshops, and LPC supervision to help support clients and best meet their therapeutic needs. I incorporate my training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Mindfulness approaches in my work with clients as we delve into their struggles and challenges.
What You Can Expect When You Work With Me
I know that therapy can be scary for people who haven’t done it before. Maybe you’ve cycled through your fair share of therapists and you’re skeptical about how I can help you.
That’s why I make sure I tailor your treatment plan to your unique needs. I’ve been doing this for a while, with extensive training in several different types of therapy and I provide quality therapy for teens and adults. We’ll dive right into exploring what brought you to therapy in the first place. We will build a strong therapeutic relationship. I aim to give you a space in the week where you can exhale, practice self-care, and feel empowered to face whatever the week ahead will bring.
I help you learn and use healthy coping strategies to manage worry and anxiety, increase self-esteem, adopt healthy self-talk, heal past wounds, and engage in healthy relationships. We’ll work together to find how to balance emotional health.
My attitude is approachable, relatable, warm, and open. I use humor when appropriate because sometimes we need to laugh. You can expect therapy with a real person, not a therapist robot. I work collaboratively with you to find the right course of treatment to meet your needs.
I mostly work within a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) framework. This means that I’m solution-focused and goal-oriented. We tackle those stubborn negative thoughts that impact your mood and behavior, making it hard to function. I provide you with tools and coping skills you can put into action to take the steps you need to live your best life.
I’m also influenced by and trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). This type of therapy is great for people struggling with strong emotions and overwhelming thoughts and feelings. It helps with emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
I use mindfulness in my practice. If you’re anxious, you’re worried about what hasn’t happened yet. If you’re depressed, you’re running through things that have happened in the past. Either way, you’re not in the moment and can’t enjoy life. We’ll practice mindfulness to help you get and stay in the present moment.
Many of my clients have experienced trauma. When something out of the ordinary happens and you are traumatized by an overwhelming event, your natural coping mechanism can become overloaded. This can lead to disturbing experiences becoming frozen in your brain or being unprocessed. These unprocessed memories can trigger negative responses and can be painful and confusing.
I use Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) to help create the connections between your brain’s memory network and process the traumatic memories in a very natural way. This type of therapy is a great evidence based treatment when talk therapy can only take you so far and you are looking for a deeper level change and healing.
I am a level 2 trained EMDR therapist. EMDR therapy can successfully treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. It can also be used to treat chronic negative self talk, stress, phobias, sleep issues, complicated grief, low self-esteem, and performance anxiety.
To find out if we’re a good fit, contact me for a free 15-minute consultation. I look forward to guiding you on your journey to overcome anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, depression, and big life transitions.