Lyndsey Upton (They/Them)

Lyndsey specializes in treating trauma and PTSD/ C-PTSD by focusing on education, emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills, and offering a safe place to come to terms with highly emotional material.

Lyndsey specializes in helping clients work through sexual and gender identity or dysphoria issues as well as other related issues such as support system reactions during the "coming out phase", fears surrounding gender confirming care, and creating an identity that encompasses all of their many possibilities. I am a trans/ non-binary person myself and familiar with the community.

I aid autistic adults and adolescents (14+) in identifying strengths, providing psychoeducation and practicing neurodivergent affirming coping strategies, building sustainable lives through appropriate accommodations and pacing, aid in healing through autistic burnout, practice authenticity, challenge systemic abelism, and provide assistance with building systems that work for them in order to maximize independence while helping them connect to or looping in their support systems.

I often utilize narrative based approaches to help the client distance themselves from the problem and re-write their life history with empowerment and understanding.

I utilize DBT to help teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness techniques. The ultimate goal is to find a balance between who you are now and who you want to be after changing some aspects of yourself in the form of positive self-growth.

I utilize ACT as a way to help clients find meaning in their suffering and learn to pave their life with roads that are closer to the person and values they want to represent to the world through values-clarification, acceptance (not to be confused with "being okay with something"), separation from thoughts and feelings as reality, and helping clients to finally stop the cycle of fighting their uncomfortable or scary emotions and making things worse by adding to or elongating suffering

I like incorporating art, music, and writing into therapy in the ways that my clients enjoy.

I lead clients in re-connecting to their bodies and better understanding and attuning to the subtle messages our bodies communicate to us; as well as aiding in exploration and release or expression of trauma, emotions, and experiences by connecting to the body's inner wisdom and signs. I help clients who experience alexythimia (difficulty deciphering or feeling emotions), interoceptive awareness difficulties, or trauma that makes their body feel unfamiliar or unsafe re-connect and heal.

I utilize theory and techniques from systems theories like IFS to aid clients in understanding systemic dynamics and the messaging and context we receive from society/others/systems we are apart of and integrating these experiences. This includes identifying systemic factors within ourselves, opening up communication with previously repressed parts of ourselves, learning to integrate this awareness, committing to continuous awareness & having compassion for all parts of us and others.