About Lindsay
Lindsay Metli is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience helping people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She aims to help clients set clear, achievable goals and make steady progress toward better daily functioning. Lindsay writes plainly and keeps sessions down-to-earth so people can relax and talk about what matters most.
She approaches care by looking at the whole person - mind, body, and spirit - and combines that view with practical, evidence-based techniques.
Background and approach
Lindsay commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and mindfulness tools to address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD-related concerns. Sessions focus on concrete skills, problem solving, and building routines that fit each person's life. Lindsay has worked across community mental health, independent practice, and psychiatric hospital settings.
She also has experience in child welfare, prison mental health volunteer work, and running therapy groups at a women's halfway house while completing her degrees. Her background supports work with a wide range of issues including grief, addiction, intimacy-related concerns, and caregiver stress. People who connect well with Lindsay tend to want straightforward help and practical strategies.
She draws on motivational interviewing and narrative ideas to encourage strengths and personal meaning. Lindsay emphasizes collaboration and helps people break larger problems into manageable steps. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Utah and practices in Utah with licensure as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Lindsay mentions that empowering others is a passion, and she brings that intention into each session.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and following the person's goals, helping people feel heard and supported as they identify what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together and teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and build helpful routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lindsay will work with each person to identify goals and try techniques that fit their needs and preferences. Sessions may include skill practice, short exercises, or homework to reinforce what was covered in conversation.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different days and needs. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and brief problem solving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the therapeutic approaches above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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