About Lindsay
Lindsay Orsi is a licensed clinician in Illinois who supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and changes in life. She holds the LCPC credential and brings three years of formal counseling experience to her online practice. Lindsay focuses on building a calm, honest space where clients can talk about hard things without judgment.
She frames sessions around practical steps and steady support. Conversations often start with what feels most urgent, then move toward manageable goals.
Background and approach
Lindsay helps people rebuild confidence, find motivation, and cope with loss or tough transitions in daily life. Her background includes work with people who are Deaf, Deaf-Blind, and those with developmental disabilities or serious mental illness. That experience informs how she adjusts communication and pacing to meet each person’s needs.
She pays attention to clear, direct language and practical strategies that fit real schedules. In sessions she focuses on listening, gentle challenge, and helping clients try out new ways of handling stress. She uses evidence-based methods to guide conversations and homework when that helps.
Lindsay encourages small, steady changes rather than instant fixes. Working with her usually starts with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment. She aims to make the first steps straightforward so people can begin addressing the concerns that brought them to therapy.
Evidence-based approaches and online access
Many of Lindsay's methods focus on practical, evidence-based techniques that help people manage symptoms and make steady changes. One common approach uses skills-building to reduce anxiety and stress by teaching breath work, grounding, and short behavioral experiments that can be practiced between sessions. This helps when worries or panic interfere with daily routines.Another approach centers on trauma-informed care that prioritizes safety, pacing, and gentle processing of difficult memories. It emphasizes stabilizing skills first, then gradually working through painful experiences at a pace the person can tolerate. This style is useful for people recovering from abuse or traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lindsay will collaborate with each person to figure out what fits their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts methods over time based on what helps most in sessions and in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which add flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction, phone can be lower bandwidth, chat or text allow shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, and life demands.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English