Lindsay Metli
Practical guidance for life's hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Utah, Wyoming
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lindsay
Lindsay Metli is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people set practical goals that improve daily life. She comes across as down to earth and aims to make clients feel at ease.
Lindsay looks at each person as a whole and chooses treatment that fits their needs. Her training includes a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Master of Social Work from the University of Utah.
Background and approach
Lindsay holds an LCSW and maintains licenses in Utah and Wyoming. Her background spans community mental health, independent practice, and psychiatric hospital settings. She also worked in child welfare and led groups for women in correctional settings while completing her degrees.
Over the years Lindsay has helped people with trauma, depression, anxiety, relationship problems, addictions, and major life transitions. She blends several evidence-based methods rather than relying on a single technique. This allows her to tailor sessions to what is most useful for each person.
In sessions she draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral work, mindfulness, dialectical skills, and EMDR when appropriate. She also uses motivational interviewing and practical problem-solving to support change. The focus is on clear steps clients can try between sessions.
Outside of work Lindsay manages a blended household with a toddler and two teenage step-children. That lived experience informs her understanding of everyday stress and juggling responsibilities. She aims to empower people to regain balance and move toward their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to each person. It creates space for people to set their own goals and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change them. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation and coping skills through step-by-step tools and exercises that help in intense moments.Lindsay approaches deciding on methods as a collaborative process. She will talk with the client about goals, try approaches that fit the problem, and adjust what she uses based on what helps. Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work together rather than a one-time decision.
Online therapy offers flexibility to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, while phone sessions remove the need for video. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, more frequent check-ins and written tools to review later. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently while juggling family and other responsibilities.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Wyoming
- Languages
- English
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