Lindsay Smith, LCPC

Lindsay Smith is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maryland with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, depression, and major life changes. Lindsay centers sessions on the client’s own goals and strengths. She creates a warm, nonjudgmental space so people can feel comfortable talking about what matters to them.

She uses a client-centered, collaborative style and draws on several evidence-informed approaches. Sessions often include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to notice and shift unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness practices are introduced when helpful to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools may be used to clarify values and guide small, manageable steps toward meaningful change.

Lindsay works with issues that commonly show up in relationships and self-image. These include communication problems, attachment and abandonment concerns, codependency, intimacy-related issues, body image, and forgiveness work. She also addresses complex emotional experiences such as dissociation, guilt and shame, emptiness, and co-occurring mood concerns including Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder when relevant to a person’s goals.

Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on concrete skills, clearer thinking, and small behavior changes that fit daily life. Lindsay partners with each person to set realistic goals and track progress over time.

People who prefer a respectful, strengths-based approach tend to do well with her style. She encourages curiosity about patterns of thought and daily habits, and supports clients as they practice new ways of responding to stress and relationships.

How therapeutic approaches guide work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small committed actions toward those values. It often focuses on noticing thoughts without getting stuck and building a life that fits personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and try new actions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness practices to reduce reactivity and improve attention to the present moment.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Lindsay will work collaboratively to choose techniques that fit a person’s goals, preferences, and daily life. She blends methods rather than using one rigid model and adjusts strategies based on how someone responds over time.

The therapist’s biography did not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can still focus on changing everyday habits, practicing skills between meetings, and trying short behavioral experiments that fit a client’s schedule. It can make it easier to attend sessions around work, school, or family routines, allow brief check-ins when helpful, and support steady habit practice between appointments.