Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
How Lindsay works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Years in practice
- 11
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Lindsay
Lindsay McClernan is a licensed clinical social worker who uses relational and evidence-based approaches to help people manage strong emotions and life stressors. She focuses on practical steps people can use day to day. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making change feel manageable.
She draws on attachment-based work to look at how important relationships shape reactions and coping. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different actions.
Background and approach
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are added when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Lindsay has 11 years of experience working with issues such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and anger. She also helps with addictions, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and workplace or career concerns.
Her practice attends to complicated histories like adoption and attachment issues, dissociation, and co-occurring concerns. Clients can expect conversations about real-life patterns, clear skill practice, and plans they can use between sessions. She supports people facing discrimination or LGBT-related challenges and aims to create an affirming space for identity concerns.
Lindsay pairs practical tools with attention to past hurts so people can build steadier coping. Based in Wisconsin, Lindsay blends a person-centered stance with targeted interventions. She helps people reclaim a sense of purpose, improve communication, and reduce the intensity of overwhelming feelings over time.
What Lindsay works with
Everything Lindsay lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Lindsay's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lindsay lists
- 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
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How relational approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape feelings and reactions, and online sessions can help people understand those patterns and try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts and behaviors into small steps; in remote sessions clients practice skills and track changes between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills that translate well to phone or messaging check-ins when intense feelings arise.Lindsay treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, test what helps, and adjust methods if something isn’t working. That collaborative process helps match skills and perspectives to the client's needs and preferences rather than assuming a single path.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for full face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when video isn’t convenient, and live chat or text-based messaging for short check-ins or skill coaching. These options make it easier to fit care into busy days, allow quieter or lower-bandwidth contacts, and enable quick follow-ups between longer sessions. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and plan practical steps for managing anger, stress, and life transitions.
Questions people ask about Lindsay
What concerns does Lindsay commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and anger, plus related issues like addictions, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and career concerns.
What is her general therapy style?
Lindsay uses a person-centered, relational style with practical tools. Sessions mix discussion of patterns with skill practice and step-by-step plans.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 11 years of experience providing mental health support across a range of concerns and complex histories.
Where is Lindsay licensed and based?
She holds a Wisconsin LCSW credential and practices out of Wisconsin.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and getting started work?
Cost varies by location and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.