Lynnette Thomas
Experienced LCSW offering practical support
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lynnette
Lynnette Thomas is a licensed clinical social worker with 37 years of professional experience. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago. Lynnette draws on long practice to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, parenting challenges, and related concerns.
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She asks clients to set goals and to track progress together. Sessions focus on practical skills such as coping strategies, problem solving, and improving communication.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to physical and spiritual aspects of well-being when clients bring those topics up. Lynnette uses a mix of approaches depending on the situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to make lasting changes. She also draws from client-centered and mindfulness approaches to meet people where they are. Over her career she has worked in many settings and with a wide range of concerns, including bipolar symptoms, eating and sleeping problems, intimacy issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She encourages clients to talk about anything on their mind, so no topic is ruled out in sessions. She aims to make therapy a practical part of daily life. Lynnette practices from Indiana and is available to work with international clients.
She offers daytime, evening, and weekend hours to fit different schedules.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person's priorities. It helps people feel heard and leads to sessions shaped around their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior, and teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.Lynnette combines these methods to match what a person needs. She discusses options with clients and together they decide which approach or mix of approaches to try. That collaborative planning helps make sure therapy fits the clients goals and daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. These formats allow people to work on skills, talk through problems, and check progress from different locations and schedules. Many clients find the range of communication methods helps therapy fit into busy family and work routines.
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
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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