About Lindsay
Lindsay Brathwaite is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She works with clients on self-esteem, grief, addictions, intimacy concerns, and life changes.
Background and approach
Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative, with an emphasis on real skills and small steps that fit daily life. Lindsay draws on 11 years of clinical experience across Connecticut and Texas.
She blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered listening to understand how past connections affect present relationships. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and dialectical skills to build coping when emotions feel overwhelming.
In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical strategies. That can mean practicing new ways of communicating, making behavior changes, or tracking patterns that get in the way of feeling better.
She pays attention to culture, identity, and the stresses people face at work or at home. Lindsay often helps people struggling with parenting stress, caregiver strain, body image concerns, or challenges tied to family of origin.
She also supports clients coping with bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and substance use issues by combining skills work with steady problem-solving. Clients can expect a collaborative tone and straightforward tools to try outside of sessions.
Lindsay aims to make therapy useful and manageable, so progress fits into everyday routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current relationships. It helps people notice patterns in how they relate and practice new ways of connecting when closeness feels hard. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel understood and can find their own solutions. This approach is often useful when someone needs space to process identity, grief, or career decisions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lindsay will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try together. Decisions about which tools to use are collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible options that fit busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client work face-to-face when detailed conversation and visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide quick check-ins, brief coaching, and reminders between sessions, which can help maintain momentum and practice new skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut, Texas
- Languages
- English