About Lindsay
Lindsay Metli is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience helping people make meaningful changes. She practices in Utah and brings a down-to-earth approach to sessions. Lindsay focuses on practical goals that improve daily life and reduce overwhelm.
She draws on a variety of methods to meet each person's needs. Lindsay looks at the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - and chooses approaches that fit the situation.
Background and approach
Common areas she supports include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, grief, and attention challenges. Her background includes community mental health, independent practice, and psychiatric hospital settings. She has also worked in child welfare, led therapy groups at a women's halfway house, and volunteered teaching life skills in a prison mental health unit.
Those roles shaped her focus on practical coping skills and real-world problem solving. Sessions often combine talk-based work with tools like mindful practice and skills training. Lindsay uses techniques from cognitive behavioral and dialectical approaches when helpful, and she sometimes includes trauma-focused methods for processing difficult memories.
The goal is to leave sessions with usable steps and clearer options. People who prefer straightforward guidance and a collaborative tone tend to fit well with her style. She aims to empower clients to tackle immediate problems while building longer-term resilience.
To begin, Lindsay asks about current struggles and works with each person to set realistic, manageable goals.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and values. It centers the conversation on what matters most to the client and helps build self-direction and practical plans. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, then suggest methods that match your needs. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging provide short check-ins, written reflections, and tools between longer sessions. These options make it easier to use skills in real time and maintain momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Wyoming
- Languages
- English