About Lindsay
Lindsay Smith, MD, LCPC, has worked in mental health for eight years in Maryland. She emphasizes a calm, understanding presence and helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns while offering practical support for self-esteem and coping skills.
Clients meet someone who listens first and then helps map simple next steps. Lindsay believes people bring strengths to therapy and builds on those strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters to the person and on doable actions between meetings. Her background includes a range of settings and age groups. That experience informs how she adapts techniques so they fit each person’s needs.
She draws on several approaches rather than using one fixed method. Therapy often covers family and blended-family concerns, communication problems, attachment and abandonment worries, and issues like guilt, shame, or body image. She also works with people facing separation, divorce, dissociation, and disruptive mood concerns in children and adolescents when relevant to an individual’s goals.
Expect a straightforward, kind style. Lindsay combines client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness approaches. The aim is to reduce immediate distress and build long-term coping skills that a person can use outside sessions.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when someone feels stuck by teaching choices aligned with what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It’s often used for anxiety, depression, and stress because it provides clear tools and exercises to practice between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve awareness. That can support emotional regulation and steady attention during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lindsay will collaborate with each person to pick or combine methods based on goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adjusts pacing and tools so the plan fits a person’s life and what they want to accomplish.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face connection; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to touch base between sessions or when writing feels more natural. These options let people use therapy in ways that fit their routine and needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English