Lindsey Vining , LCSW

Lindsey Vining is an LCSW with more than 15 years of experience supporting adults, adolescents, and children through a wide range of life challenges. She has provided care across inpatient and outpatient settings, crisis and emergency shelter programs, community mental health, and medical clinics, working with people impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, serious mental health concerns, and homelessness. Lindsey brings a motivating and supportive yet direct style to therapy, often using optimism and carefully placed humor to build rapport and encourage meaningful change.

Her work draws on client-centered and cognitive-behavioral approaches, combined with solution-focused techniques and motivational interviewing, so sessions are tailored to each person’s needs. Lindsey emphasizes individualized treatment planning and adapts methods to address issues such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, and coping with life changes. She aims to offer compassionate, non-biased, and non-judgmental care throughout the therapeutic process.

Lindsey is committed to accommodating schedules and time zones and makes every effort to work with clients’ availability. She checks messages daily except Sundays and invites prospective clients to reach out if her posted availability does not match their needs. Lindsey uses she/her pronouns and accepts international clients who are seeking ongoing support from a licensed professional.

Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life

Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an empathetic, non-judgmental environment where the client’s perspective guides the work - this approach helps people build self-understanding, confidence, and the ability to make choices that align with their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and offers practical strategies to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress while improving coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relationship patterns and how they affect current connections, which can be helpful for people dealing with relationship difficulties, abandonment issues, or challenges in forming secure bonds.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Lindsey collaborates with each client to determine which methods best match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adapts techniques over time so therapy remains relevant and effective for the individual.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - clients can meet by video, speak by phone, or use live chat and text-based messaging to stay connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into busy schedules, support work with clients in different time zones, and maintain continuity when life circumstances change, while enabling licensed professionals to provide focused, accessible therapeutic support.