About Lindsey
Lindsey Peterson is a Minnesota licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people facing grief, life changes, stress, anxiety, and addiction. She greets new clients with calm and straightforward care. Lindsey aims to make the first step feel possible and acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage.
She works in short, plain sentences with clients to talk through what matters now. Sessions often include attention to body sensations and practical tools for daily life.
Background and approach
Lindsey uses approaches that blend present-moment awareness with problem-solving skills to reduce overwhelming feelings. With sixteen years of professional experience, Lindsey draws from several methods to fit each person. She combines somatic ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when useful.
This lets clients notice how their bodies, thoughts, and actions interact and build small habits that add up over time. Clients commonly come for help with sleep problems, self-esteem, work stress, ADHD, depression, and coping after loss. Lindsey also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiver strain, fertility and cancer-related concerns, and issues around codependency or communication.
Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Lindsey listens first, then offers options people can try between sessions. She aims to make the work useful for everyday life and to help clients find clearer direction and steadier coping skills.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing the body's signals and how sensations link to emotions and reactions. Online sessions can use guided attention to breath, posture, and gentle movement to help people feel more grounded and less reactive. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) emphasizes values and committed action; it helps people accept difficult thoughts and still move toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on practical strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and build new behaviors that reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about your concerns, goals, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together you will try methods and adjust them based on what fits your life and comfort level, with a focus on small, manageable steps.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical needs. They also allow for short check-ins or written reflection when that suits the client's pace, while keeping the same therapeutic focus and continuity.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English