About Lindsay
Lindsay McClernan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Wisconsin. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and ADHD. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel practical and manageable.
She often starts by listening to the immediate concerns and then works with each person to set clear, small goals. Sessions are grounded in real skills people can use between appointments.
Background and approach
Lindsay emphasizes self-compassion and steady progress over quick fixes. Her background includes 11 years of clinical work with people facing trauma, relationship strain, and major life changes. She draws on several evidence-based approaches to tailor care to each situation.
That lets her shift between skill-building, emotional processing, and safety planning as needed. Lindsay also supports people dealing with identity-related stress, workplace burnout, and caregiving challenges. She aims to help clients strengthen communication, reduce isolation, and find routines that fit their lives.
Practical strategies and clear next steps are a regular part of sessions. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances emotional understanding with concrete tools. Lindsay partners with each person to track progress and adjust the plan when something isn’t working.
She believes steady effort and small changes add up to lasting improvements.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on understanding patterns from important relationships and how those patterns show up now. Online sessions use conversation and reflective exercises to help people notice those patterns and try new ways of relating to themselves and others.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to shift unhelpful patterns. In remote sessions this looks like short skill practices, worksheets shared over chat, and focused homework between meetings to build new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lindsay will discuss options and try methods that fit a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as issues and needs change.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging let people share moments and questions between appointments and support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style work. These options make therapy more flexible for busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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