About Lindsay
Lindsay Pennell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Missouri who helps adults navigate stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and ADHD-related struggles. She works with people dealing with depression, bipolar symptoms, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and sleep problems. Her plain, direct approach is aimed at people who want practical change and steadier day-to-day coping.
Lindsay brings nine years of counseling experience focused on adults with mental health diagnoses and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
She uses motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral techniques alongside mindfulness and a strength-based outlook. Sessions center on clear goals and small, manageable steps that fit each person’s life. Her style is warm and open.
She strives to meet people where they are and help them feel heard while they build new skills. Many sessions focus on setting boundaries, reducing panic and social anxiety, and addressing guilt or shame that complicates recovery. Lindsay also supports people working through work stress, financial strain, parenting pressures, and compassion fatigue.
For those wanting to quit smoking or vaping, or to reduce drug and alcohol use, she offers focused help and practical strategies. Therapy includes concrete coping tools, habit change plans, and emotion regulation practice. Clients can expect a collaborative process that respects their pace and learning style.
Lindsay aims to make the work understandable and usable, so progress continues between sessions.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Many of Lindsay’s methods focus on skills people can use right away. Cognitive-behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with clearer, more useful thinking that reduces anxiety and improves mood. Motivational interviewing supports people who feel stuck or ambivalent about change by tapping into their own reasons and strengths.She also uses mindfulness practices to help people notice stress and choose calmer responses. These approaches work well for anxiety, panic, addiction-related habits, and day-to-day impulse management. Lindsay will collaborate with each person to choose the techniques that match their goals, learning style, and life demands rather than prescribing a single method.
Online therapy with Lindsay uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling fit into busy lives. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, brief live chat or text messages support quick check-ins, and messaging can keep momentum between appointments. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other responsibilities while keeping the work consistent and goal-focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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