Her Story
About Lindsay
My career path has been deeply shaped by my own personal struggles and loss when I was younger, which led me on a healing journey. I started doing a lot of different trainings and traveling around the world to learn different healing modalities. I wanted to support other people in that journey, so I started offering individual Reiki, breathwork, sound healing, and yoga sessions, as well as women's retreats in California. Eventually, I felt like I didn't fully align with the coaching industry's practices, so I wanted to get a degree in social work to become a therapist. I moved from California to New York to get my Master's in social work at NYU and graduated in 2024. Now I've been working as a therapist doing somatic psychotherapy for the last 3 years, though I've been doing healing work for 6 years total. My main area of expertise is somatic trauma work, working with the body, trying to understand what's happening in the body and being aware of the body. A typical day for me looks like waking up, having my morning routine, and then I see anywhere from 5 to 9 clients a day. I work from home remotely, and we'll work on anything that is coming up for them - sometimes we will do somatic work, breathing, mindfulness, or more traditional talk therapy or CBT. Alongside that, I also run events like a monthly tea night, and I'm in the process of planning a women's retreat.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Lindsay
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to my ability to build community and create connection, and then be able to help support other people to be able to do that in their lives. That's what I'm most proud of professionally.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say that everything leads you to somewhere, and even though it may be challenging, it can be a way to grow and transform and learn and get closer to who and where you want to be.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I think that the therapy world is very under-resourced and overworked, and I think there's a lot of lack of care for the healthcare professionals in the field. I think capitalism really, unfortunately, bleeds into mental healthcare in so many ways, where it is a for-profit business that sometimes hurts clients, because it is, at the end of the day, a business in some ways, and I think that can be really frustrating for me.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Communication and compassion are my two biggest values.
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