About Lindsay
Lindsay McClernan is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and major life changes. She offers steady support for emotional pain, relationship strain, grief, addiction, and concerns about identity and self-worth. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making hard conversations feel manageable.
In sessions she centers the person rather than a diagnosis. That means talking through what feels most urgent, learning concrete skills, and working toward small, useful shifts.
Background and approach
She mixes attachment-focused ideas with cognitive-behavioral tools and mindfulness so people can feel less overwhelmed day to day. Lindsay brings 11 years of clinical experience in Wisconsin to her work. She has supported people through parenting challenges, blended family tensions, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress.
She also helps those dealing with trauma, dissociation, domestic violence, and substance use concerns. Her approach often addresses how early relationships shape current reactions and patterns. She helps people untangle attachment wounds and build clearer communication habits.
Practical coping skills for anxiety and mood concerns are paired with opportunities to process painful memories when appropriate. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Lindsay aims to make therapy useful and doable for busy lives.
She meets people where they are and helps them take steps toward greater stability and clarity.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions. It helps people understand trust, closeness, and patterns that repeat in adult life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on clear, practical strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress that interfere with daily life. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a structured method to process traumatic memories so they cause less distress. It is often used when past events keep affecting present wellbeing.Lindsay will work collaboratively to find which approach fits best for each person. Early sessions are used to hear your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The choice of approach can change over time as issues become clearer and new priorities emerge.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for full sessions with visual cues, while phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging suits quick check-ins, skill practice, or short updates between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving routines while keeping a steady therapeutic plan.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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