Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
How Lynnette works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Years in practice
- 37
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Lynnette
Lynnette Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker with 37 years of practice experience. She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Chicago and has supported people through stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Lynnette also helps with trauma and grief, substance concerns, parenting stresses, and anger-related difficulties.
She meets people where they are and uses clear, practical steps in sessions. Lynnette encourages clients to set their own goals and check progress together.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and focused on what matters most to the person in front of her. Her work draws on client-centered methods along with cognitive behavioral ideas and motivational interviewing. She helps people learn new coping skills, improve problem-solving, and make behavior changes that fit their lives.
Mindfulness skills are used to manage strong emotions when needed. Lynnette has experience across many settings and with varied life challenges. She supports people coping with family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and abandonment issues, and blended family stress.
She also addresses eating- and sleep-related problems, codependency, and caregiver strain. Sessions are offered in English and Lynnette is based in Indiana. She invites clients to bring any issue into the room and works with them to find practical steps forward.
Her approach is steady, straightforward, and oriented to real-life outcomes.
What Lynnette works with
Everything Lynnette lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Lynnette's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lynnette lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-Based Care for Online Sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities. It helps people set personal goals and steer sessions toward what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical techniques for changing unhelpful thinking and behavior, which can help with anxiety, depression, and anger management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. It is useful when strong emotional reactions make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for deeper conversational work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat or text works well for quick check-ins and ongoing skill practice. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions across time zones and different routines.
Questions people ask about Lynnette
What concerns does Lynnette help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, anger, addictions, parenting strain, ADHD, and many related issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a collaborative, client-centered approach and emphasizes practical skills and goal setting. Sessions focus on what the client wants to change and measurable steps toward those goals.
How much experience does she have?
She has 37 years of professional experience, including work in a variety of clinical settings supporting people through major life changes and emotional challenges.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, practicing from Indiana.
Which languages are supported and are international clients accepted?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are offered?
She conducts video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist matching; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.