About Lindsey
Lindsey Hoffman is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, evidence-informed therapy to help people navigate hard moments. She focuses on clear conversation, steady support, and building steps that fit each person's life. Lindsey aims to make the first contact feel manageable and respectful.
She draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR to address anxiety, trauma, depression, and stress. Sessions often include looking at current patterns, trying small behavior changes, and practicing skills that reduce overwhelm.
How Lindsey works
Lindsey also brings mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to help clients notice progress and stay grounded between sessions. Her clinical experience spans four years and includes work with people coping with postpartum mood changes, parenting stress, family conflict, and major life transitions. She has also worked with people from varied backgrounds, including military-associated households and the LGBTQ community.
That range shapes a flexible, person-centered way of working. Lindsey aims to meet each client where they are. She listens first, then helps set clear, realistic goals.
Together a client and Lindsey plan steps that feel doable and that build on existing strengths. Therapy sessions can include practical coaching for everyday problems, strategies for sleep or eating struggles, and focused work for grief or panic symptoms. Lindsey works with people managing caregiver strain, attachment concerns, and issues related to adoption and foster care.
Her Hawaii-based practice uses plain language and short-term plans when that fits the client's needs.
Lindsey lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Lindsey works with
The areas below are the ones Lindsey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Using CBT, EMDR, and Mindfulness Online
Many online sessions focus on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT involves identifying unhelpful patterns, testing new ways of thinking, and practicing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression.EMDR is another approach Lindsey uses for trauma-related work. In brief, it helps people process upsetting memories by combining focused attention with guided bilateral stimulation and then integrating new perspectives on those events.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices often pair well with CBT or EMDR to help people manage stress and stay grounded between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lindsey will listen to a client's history, current problems, and goals, then recommend methods that seem likely to help. She adjusts plans over time based on what is working and what the client prefers.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat gives quick check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or brief coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving forward.
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