Lindsey Kohn

I’m a Licensed Psychotherapist who works with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, trauma, addiction, relationship challenges, life transitions, grief, self-esteem struggles, and emotional overwhelm. My approach is warm, insight-oriented, and deeply compassionate while also being practical and collaborative. I strive to create a space where clients feel safe enough to explore difficult emotions, patterns, and experiences without judgment.

Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a teacher, which gave me a strong understanding of child development, family systems, communication, and the emotional needs of adolescents and families. I hold two master’s degrees and have experience working in both private practice and treatment settings with clients experiencing trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, attachment wounds, and co-occurring disorders.

My therapeutic style integrates psychodynamic therapy, Jungian and shadow work concepts, mindfulness, CBT, DBT-informed coping skills, and trauma-informed care. I help clients understand not only what they are struggling with, but why those patterns developed and how healing and change can occur. I believe many symptoms are rooted in survival strategies, unresolved emotional pain, and nervous system dysregulation, and therapy can help clients reconnect with themselves in a more grounded, authentic, and empowered way.

I am especially passionate about helping clients break unhealthy cycles, improve relationships, process trauma, build emotional resilience, and develop greater self-awareness and self-compassion. Whether someone is feeling stuck, disconnected, anxious, overwhelmed, or simply wanting deeper insight into themselves, therapy can become a meaningful space for healing and transformation.

My approach to therapy is compassionate, insight-oriented, and collaborative. I believe therapy should be a space where clients feel emotionally safe, understood, and genuinely supported while also being challenged to grow, heal, and better understand themselves. I work to help clients explore not only current symptoms and behaviors, but the deeper emotional patterns, attachment experiences, and survival strategies that may be driving them.

My work integrates psychodynamic therapy, Jungian and shadow work concepts, trauma-informed care, mindfulness, CBT, DBT-informed coping skills, and attachment-based approaches. I often help clients explore the connection between past experiences, nervous system responses, relationships, self-worth, and emotional regulation. I believe many struggles such as anxiety, addiction, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, avoidance, or relationship difficulties develop as adaptive responses to pain, trauma, or unmet emotional needs.

I specialize in working with trauma, anxiety, addiction and recovery, grief, relationship issues, self-esteem, emotional regulation, life transitions, and family or attachment wounds. I also work with clients who feel disconnected from themselves, stuck in unhealthy patterns, overwhelmed by stress, or uncertain about how to move forward in life.

In sessions, I balance insight and emotional exploration with practical tools and coping strategies. Depending on the client’s needs, we may work on grounding skills, communication patterns, boundaries, cognitive reframing, mindfulness, emotional processing, or increasing self-awareness and self-compassion. My goal is to help clients feel more empowered, emotionally regulated, connected, and able to live with greater authenticity and intention.

Clients can expect the first session to feel supportive, collaborative, and nonjudgmental. My goal is to create a space where clients feel safe enough to be honest about what they are struggling with, while also beginning to build a strong therapeutic connection. I understand that starting therapy can feel vulnerable, intimidating, or emotionally overwhelming, so I approach the process with warmth, curiosity, and compassion.

During the first session, we will explore what brings the client to therapy, current stressors or symptoms, personal history, relationship dynamics, and any goals or areas of growth they would like to focus on. I also work to understand patterns that may be contributing to emotional distress, including anxiety, trauma responses, relationship difficulties, addiction, self-esteem struggles, or nervous system dysregulation.

Clients can expect a balance of emotional exploration and practical support. I often help clients begin identifying coping patterns, emotional triggers, strengths, and protective factors while also discussing what they hope to gain from therapy. Together, we work to establish goals that feel realistic, meaningful, and tailored to the client’s individual needs.

Above all, I strive to create an environment where clients feel seen, respected, and understood. Therapy is not about judgment or perfection — it is about building awareness, healing underlying wounds, developing healthier patterns, and creating lasting emotional change over time.