About Lynnette
Lynnette Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker with over 37 years of practice. She earned a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Chicago and offers thoughtful, steady support for people facing hard moments. She welcomes people whether they are new to therapy or have been in it before.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, addiction, trauma and grief. She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, problems with sleep and eating, and career or life changes.
Background and approach
Her work also addresses attachment, adoption and foster care questions, blended family challenges, caregiver strain, and codependency. Lynnette uses client-centered work alongside cognitive-behavioral and motivational techniques. Sessions involve setting clear goals, practicing new skills, and checking progress together.
She encourages active participation and practical steps that fit each person’s life. Her approach is direct but compassionate. She pays attention to mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of well-being and invites any concern into the room.
People can expect focused conversations that move toward specific changes and better coping. Based in Indiana, Lynnette offers flexible hours including daytime, evenings, and weekends. She accepts people from different places, and conducts sessions in ways that fit each person’s schedule and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches fit with online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and the relationship in the room. The therapist listens closely, reflects what’s said, and helps each person set priorities and decide next steps. This approach helps when someone wants a supportive, goal-driven conversation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It involves practical exercises and homework to change patterns that maintain anxiety, depression, or sleep and eating problems. CBT is useful for people who want concrete skills and clear steps to try between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for handling strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches techniques for distress tolerance, emotional regulation, and communication, which can help with anger, intense mood swings, and interpersonal conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the challenges a person brings, and then choose or mix methods together. This is a collaborative process that can shift as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet those goals. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can fit around work or caregiving; live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options help people keep therapy consistent when schedules are busy or travel makes in-person visits difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English