About Lindsay
Lindsay Hutchins is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people facing addiction, relationship struggles, trauma, intimacy concerns, and low self-esteem. She has 28 years of experience and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her tone is calm and straightforward, aiming to make hard conversations easier to begin.
In sessions she listens closely and follows each person’s lead. She uses therapy methods that help people feel felt in their bodies, notice patterns, and try small changes.
Background and approach
Lindsay often focuses on communication, attachment wounds, and rebuilding trust in oneself after painful events. She supports people dealing with abandonment, codependency, commitment and control issues, and the fallout from divorce or separation. She also helps those navigating caregiver stress, aging concerns, and overlapping mental health or substance use challenges.
Her work covers family of origin problems and the long shadow of past abuse or dissociation. Her approach blends client-centered care with mindfulness practice and body-focused work. She draws on trauma-focused methods and internal family systems ideas to help people find calm and clearer inner boundaries.
Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to what feels doable for each person. Lindsay describes therapy as a place to practice new ways of relating to yourself and others. She prioritizes clear communication, measurable small goals, and steady skill-building so people can leave sessions with things to try between meetings.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person’s lead and creating space to speak without judgment. It helps people clarify what matters most and test small changes in how they relate to others. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety or shame. These practices are useful for worries, relationship stress, and building calm between sessions.Somatic therapy pays attention to physical sensations and how the body holds stress. It uses gentle tracking of breath, posture, and movement to help people feel less stuck after trauma. These body-aware exercises can be guided over video or described in chat for practice between appointments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That may mean combining listening-focused work, mindfulness exercises, and somatic practices as needed.
Online formats offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and movement work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, reflection between sessions, and shorter checkups during busy weeks. These options help make consistent care more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English