About Lindsay
Lindsay Brunner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 15 years of experience helping people through difficult life moments. She practices in Missouri and focuses on depression, anxiety, trauma, and the feelings that come with major life changes. Lindsay emphasizes a straightforward, compassionate approach that centers each person's story and needs.
She aims to create a calm space where clients can talk through current struggles and past wounds.
How Lindsay works
Sessions tend to focus on understanding patterns, building coping skills, and developing clearer ways to respond to stress and strong emotions. Lindsay pays particular attention to issues like self-esteem, grief, social anxiety, and problems that show up in close relationships. Her work also addresses challenges linked to abuse, addiction, and family of origin difficulties.
She supports people dealing with eating and body image concerns, cancer-related stress, blended family tensions, and the fallout from separation or divorce. Lindsay offers steady guidance when life transitions feel overwhelming. Her style is direct and respectful, with an emphasis on practical steps people can try between sessions.
She helps clients set realistic goals and test small changes to see what works. Over time the goal is greater clarity, more resilience, and increased self-compassion. Lindsay meets each person where they are and tailors the work to fit their situation.
She works in English and practices under the Missouri LCSW credential.
What Lindsay works with
The areas below are the ones Lindsay selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options that fit your life
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on practical change and healing. One commonly used approach helps people identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and then practices new responses. This kind of work often helps with anxiety, low mood, and stress by giving clear tools to try between sessions.Another approach centers on processing painful memories and the emotions tied to them. It guides people through safer, gradual ways to make sense of past trauma and reduce its hold on daily life. This can be useful for those struggling with abuse-related stress or long-standing interpersonal wounds.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help figure out which techniques match a person's goals, needs, and preferences. Together they’ll try strategies, see what helps, and adjust the plan over time.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, cut travel time, and provide flexibility for work or caregiving schedules. It also allows for shorter check-ins when that fits best, or longer sessions when more processing is needed.
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