About Lindsay
Lindsay Hutchins is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 28 years of experience. She helps people facing addiction, relationship struggles, trauma, intimacy issues, and low self-esteem. Her manner is steady and practical, aimed at making change feel doable one step at a time.
She focuses on real-life problems like abandonment wounds, codependency, communication breakdowns, and the stress caregivers carry. Lindsay pays attention to how past family patterns shape today’s choices.
How Lindsay works
She also supports people dealing with aging concerns, separation and divorce, and co-occurring drug or alcohol issues. Her work is collaborative. She listens first, then helps people name what matters most to them.
Sessions often include body-centered techniques, mindfulness practice, and talking through relationship patterns so new options can emerge. Lindsay draws on trauma-focused methods and Internal Family Systems to help people understand parts of themselves that hold fear, shame, or control. She tends to use practical exercises so coping skills grow between sessions.
Clients leave with things to practice, not just ideas to think about. She uses a grounded, person-centered style that values small changes. The aim is clearer communication, steadier emotional responses, and better boundaries.
Lindsay meets clients where they are and works at a pace that fits their life.
Lindsay lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Lindsay works with
The areas below are the ones Lindsay selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 28 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches That Meet You Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person leads the work and the therapist follows. It helps when someone wants to feel heard and to build confidence in their own choices.Mindfulness Therapy teaches short practices for noticing thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. These skills are useful for managing anxiety, cravings, and strong emotional reactions.
Somatic Therapy pays attention to what the body holds after trauma or stress and uses gentle exercises to release tension and restore steadiness. This can be helpful for people who notice physical symptoms tied to emotional pain.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lindsay will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. That choice is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging for brief support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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