Lindsey Peterson, LICSW

Minnesota · 16 years in practice

Lindsey Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people navigate grief, life changes, and everyday stress.

License and registration

LICSW, Minnesota: 19300 · expires December 2026
NPI: 1437740545 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 16
Languages: English

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About Lindsey

Lindsey Peterson is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people navigate grief, life changes, and everyday stress. She keeps conversations straightforward and nonjudgmental so clients can say what they need to say. Lindsey acknowledges how hard the first step can be and aims to make starting therapy feel manageable for busy lives.

She blends several practical approaches in sessions. Lindsey uses Systemic therapy to look at patterns in relationships and daily routines that affect mood and behavior.

Background and approach

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts without letting them drive decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when breaking down problems into small, actionable steps feels most useful. Lindsey’s background includes many years working with issues like anxiety, depression, addiction, ADHD, sleep problems, and low self-esteem.

She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving stress, cancer, and age-related concerns. She listens for what matters most to each person and tailors her approach to those priorities. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused.

Lindsey helps clients set small, realistic goals and practices skills between meetings. She offers coaching-style guidance for career questions and life transitions as well as deeper therapeutic work for grief and longstanding patterns. She holds a Minnesota LICSW, brings 16 years of experience, and provides services in English.

Lindsey works with people across locations, including international clients, using a mix of session formats.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Lindsey lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Grief
Coping with life changes
ADHD
Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
Sleeping disorders
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Depression
Coaching
Aging and geriatric issues
Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Dissociation
Drug and alcohol addiction
Emptiness
Family problems
Fertility issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Hospice and end-of-life counseling
Impulsivity
Isolation / loneliness
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Money and financial issues
Mood disorders
Multicultural concerns
Narcissism
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Postpartum depression
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-love
Traumatic brain injury
Women's issues
Workplace issues

Approaches Lindsey names

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Online support

Approaches that translate well to online therapy

Systemic therapy looks at how relationships, routines, and roles affect how someone feels and acts. Online sessions allow Lindsey to map patterns and discuss interactions that happen at work, home, or school and then plan small changes to daily routines.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches ways to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. In teletherapy, clients learn simple mindfulness and values-based exercises they can practice between sessions to handle grief, anxiety, or life transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lindsey will talk through what feels most useful and adjust methods to fit a person's goals and preferences. That collaborative process helps pick strategies that fit your schedule and needs.

Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat makes shorter check-ins possible, and text-based messaging lets clients share thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

Lindsey works with grief, anxiety, depression, addictions, ADHD, sleep issues, self-esteem, career questions, and coping with major life changes.

What is her therapeutic style like?

She keeps sessions conversational and goal-focused, using techniques from Systemic therapy, ACT, and CBT to help people notice patterns and try small changes.

How much experience does she have?

Lindsey has 16 years of professional experience supporting people through grief, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and other life challenges.

Where is she licensed and based?

She holds a Minnesota LICSW and practices from Minnesota while offering services to people in other locations.

Can I work with her if I live outside the U.S.?

She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.

Which session formats are available?

Sessions can be held via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits your needs.

How does payment and cost work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

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