About Lynn
Lynn Tijssen is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Maine with 21 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addictions, ADHD, and issues like low self-esteem and grief. Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at making a worried parent or individual feel understood quickly.
Her sessions are conversational and respectful. She avoids stigmatizing labels and focuses on what each person wants to change.
Background and approach
Lynn listens first, then works with clients to set clear, manageable goals. She uses tools from several approaches to fit each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. She draws on client-centered work to build trust and create a space where people can talk openly.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small, practical experiments. Mindfulness practices help with stress, sleep, and feeling more present in daily life. Existential ideas are woven in when people are struggling with meaning, life direction, or big changes.
Motivational interviewing supports those facing addictions or ambivalence about change by strengthening personal motivation. Lynn adapts each session to what is most useful in the moment. Her background includes long-term counseling work across a range of concerns, and she supports international clients in English.
People who want flexible visit options can connect by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship where the person feels heard and guided rather than judged. This approach helps when someone needs space to talk through emotions and make their own choices about change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It uses short practical exercises to reduce anxiety, manage mood, address sleep problems, and change patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and improve focus. These techniques can be useful for people struggling with worry, impulsivity, or sleep disruption.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Clients and the therapist decide together which strategies help most and when to try something different.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can keep working on goals from wherever they are.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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