- Addictions
- Trauma recovery
- Mindfulness
About Lindsay
Lindsay Hutchins is a California licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 28 years of experience. She focuses on life purpose concerns linked to addiction, relationships, trauma and intimacy, as well as self-esteem challenges. Lindsay works with adults facing major life changes and periods of feeling stuck or uncertain about what comes next.
She favors plain, direct conversation where people can name what feels wrong and try small, concrete experiments to change it. Sessions often look at patterns that show up in close relationships, including attachment and codependency issues. She also addresses addiction and substance use as part of broader life and coping concerns.
Lindsay uses Client-Centered methods to make space for each person’s perspective and priorities. She incorporates mindfulness practices to help people notice reactions in the moment. Somatic work and trauma-focused techniques are used when bodies or past events hold on to stress and disturbance.
Her style is collaborative and practical. She helps people clarify values, test new ways of communicating, and set realistic steps toward clearer direction. That can include working through abandonment wounds, caregiving stress, divorce, or problems rooted in family of origin.
Over nearly three decades in practice, Lindsay has supported people through aging and geriatric concerns, co-morbidity, dissociation, disaster-related coping, and commitment or control struggles. She offers sessions in English and practices statewide in California as a CA LCSW.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy means conversations focus on the person’s priorities. The therapist listens for what matters most and helps shape goals from the client’s own view. Mindfulness Therapy offers short, practical exercises to notice thoughts and bodily reactions; these can be taught and practiced during sessions to manage stress and improve focus.Somatic Therapy attends to bodily signals and tension held after trauma or long-term stress. In practice this can mean guided body-awareness exercises, breath-based techniques, and gentle movement to help reduce reactivity and make changes feel more integrated.
Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will discuss options, try methods in session, and adjust based on what helps most. That collaborative process is part of deciding whether more talk-focused work, mindfulness routines, or somatic practices fit the person’s goals.
Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the original biography. Online sessions can make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into work or caregiving routines. They also support shorter check-ins when time is limited and make it possible to attend without traveling, while still allowing active therapeutic techniques to be practiced during the meeting.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
28+ years
Listed in
California
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She focuses on addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and intimacy-related issues, plus self-esteem and related areas such as abandonment and codependency.
How does she approach feeling stuck or directionless?
Her work is collaborative and practical, using conversation, small behavioral experiments, and communication practice to test new ways forward.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 28 years of experience as a practicing clinician, working across a wide range of life transition and trauma-related concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a California LCSW and practices in California.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What does therapy cost and how are sessions billed?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger, use the crisis numbers.