About Lindsey
Lindsey Hoffman is a licensed clinical social worker who combines practical therapy methods with a calm, down-to-earth style. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, parenting challenges, and mood changes. Lindsey aims to make the first step feel doable and straightforward for anyone reaching out.
With four years of social work experience, she has worked with people facing postpartum mood disorders, family conflict, and major life transitions. Her background also includes supporting people from the LGBTQ+ community and military-connected households.
Background and approach
Lindsey listens first, then helps people set clear, realistic goals. In sessions she highlights strengths people already have. Lindsey uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and make small changes.
She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for people coping with traumatic memories. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. She helps people break big problems into manageable steps.
Meetings focus on practical tools that can be used between sessions. Lindsey holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, listed as HI LCSW LCSW-4533. She provides care from Hawaii and offers sessions in English.
If someone prefers a friendly, practical guide while handling parenting stress, grief, or changes at work, Lindsey aims to help them move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
EMDR helps people process distressing memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation, which can reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions. It is often used for post-traumatic stress and strong trauma-related responses.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, depression, and managing day-to-day stress by building new thinking and behavior habits.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Lindsey will talk with each person about their needs and goals and suggest methods that fit those priorities. Together they will try techniques, track what helps, and adjust the plan as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let people see each other for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera feels easier. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick coaching moments, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English