About Lindsay
Lindsay Hager is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with two decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship struggles, and eating and sleeping concerns.
Background and approach
She addresses a broad range of emotional and behavioral issues including trauma and abuse, intimacy-related challenges, bipolar and mood disorders, ADHD, panic, and difficulties with self-esteem and life purpose. Lindsay also works with patterns like attachment issues, codependency, communication struggles, control issues, and substance use concerns.
Her practice emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion, with an individualized approach to care. She adapts conversations and treatment plans to each person’s circumstances and goals, drawing from client-centered methods alongside evidence-based tools.
Over twenty years she has integrated practical strategies for coping with anger, career transitions, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue while supporting healing from grief, shame, and isolation. Lindsay guides clients through the challenge of change with supportive collaboration and tailored interventions.
She frames the therapeutic process as a partnership, meeting people where they are and helping them take the steps toward greater balance and well-being.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an accepting, nonjudgmental space where the person’s own goals and insights guide the work; this approach can be especially helpful for building self-understanding, self-love, and stronger coping skills. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, making it useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and mood regulation. Mindfulness therapy teaches present-moment awareness and stress-reduction techniques that support emotional regulation and can aid with rumination, grief, and compassion fatigue.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will explore a client’s concerns, preferences, and goals together and adapt methods over time so treatment aligns with what feels most helpful and feasible for the individual person.
Online therapy provides practical flexibility by offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so people can access care from wherever they are in Illinois. Those options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and use different communication styles depending on comfort and daily needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English