About Lindsay
Lindsay McClernan is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on somatic-informed care and practical coping skills. She uses a down-to-earth style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the fallout of trauma. Lindsay aims to make therapy feel practical and approachable for people juggling everyday life challenges.
She brings 11 years of clinical experience in Wisconsin to sessions. That experience includes work with addiction, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and issues around identity and discrimination.
Background and approach
Lindsay often helps people who are wrestling with relationship problems, parenting strain, career transitions, and feelings of emptiness or low self-esteem. Her work blends body-centered awareness with client-centered conversation. She helps people notice how stress shows up in the body and then practices simple skills to reduce tension.
Sessions also draw on cognitive tools and emotion-regulation strategies when useful for coping and decision-making. Lindsay pays attention to attachment and past relationship patterns that keep people stuck. She helps clients untangle patterns tied to abandonment, adoption, foster care, or blended family dynamics.
Communication skills and boundary work are common, concrete focuses in her practice. People in therapy with Lindsay often build step-by-step plans for change. That can mean learning to manage triggers, practicing new ways to ask for support, or reducing substance use through safer choices.
She offers a steady, respectful presence while helping clients try new responses and build resilience.
How somatic and attachment work translate to online therapy
Somatic work focuses on noticing how emotions show up in the body and learning simple ways to reduce physical stress. It can help with anxiety, trauma aftereffects, and overwhelm by teaching grounding and breath-based practices that people can use between sessions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change repeating habits that cause pain. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person sets goals and the therapist mirrors and supports their priorities. Both approaches support work on grief, relationship issues, parenting stress, and past abandonment or attachment wounds.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and life demands and then try approaches that fit. Sessions often combine body-focused awareness, practical coping skills, and communication work tailored to what the client needs that week.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make regular work easier to fit into a busy life. These formats let people practice grounding or emotion-regulation skills in real time and check in between sessions when helpful. Overall, online work can increase flexibility while keeping the focus on steady, gradual progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English