A steady place to do the thing you have been afraid to do.
I'm Lindsey Painter, a licensed clinical social worker in Sandy, Utah. If lately you have felt like you are not enough, or you are afraid to do something differently, those are the things people bring to me most. I work with people fourteen and up, in person and by telehealth anywhere in Utah.
What I help with.
What brings you here does not need a name yet. Open any of these and see what other people have said when they first reach out, and how the Moxie approach works.
Everyone starts somewhere different.
I'm alongside you, at your pace.
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I'm certified in EMDR and use it alongside body-based work, for a single event and for the kind of trauma that built up over years.
Survival habits get learned early, like shrinking yourself or taking on the caretaker role for everyone around you. They made sense once. Changing them takes time, and we go at your pace.
Alongside EMDR I use somatic and sensorimotor work, because trauma lives in the body as much as in memory. We build awareness of what your body is doing before we ask anything else of it.
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I use exposure and response prevention and I-CBT, for the thoughts, for the avoidance, and for the things you do to quiet the feeling.
The thoughts might be about contamination, or harm, or something you would never say out loud. The content matters less than the demand that follows it, the ritual or the avoidance that buys a little relief and then asks for more.
With I-CBT we look at the reasoning the obsession uses and the story it has you telling about yourself. With ERP we face the feared thing on purpose, in steps you agree to, so you can find out who you are outside of the intrusive thoughts.
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Hair pulling and skin picking. We notice when it happens, find something else for that moment, and leave the shame out of it.
The urge usually rides on stress or anxiety, and it has a pattern: a time of day, a place, a trigger you may not have noticed yet. Naming that pattern is the first piece of the work.
I use ACT-enhanced behavior therapy: awareness training so the moment gets noticed sooner, and competing responses, something else for your hands while the urge passes.
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DBT and ACT skills, so feelings stop running the whole day. We also look at where you learned to handle them the way you do.
Most of us learned what to do with emotions by watching someone else. If what you saw was explosion or silence, it makes sense that yours feel unmanageable now. We look at where the pattern was learned before we try to change it.
Then we practice DBT and ACT skills for the moments that run hottest: naming what is actually there, riding it out without making it bigger, and letting go of what you have been carrying past its usefulness.
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Relationship anxiety and conflict, including the patterns that keep you somewhere that isn't good for you. Better relationships start with the one you have with yourself.
Maybe it is expectations nobody could meet, yours included, or needing steady reassurance that you are still okay. Those patterns usually trace back to what your earliest relationships taught you.
We map how you attach and where your boundaries actually sit, then practice asking for what you need without bracing for the fallout.
If what you're carrying isn't on this list, tell me anyway.
If I'm not the right person, I'll say so early and help guide you to the right fit.
Moxie is the decision to not let doubt win.
Not the absence of doubt, because the doubts stay.
Moxie is what happens anyway, one step at a time.
Strength of character
Knowing who you are, and how that lines up, or does not, with who you want to be.
Unyielding determination
Staying with the work through the middle, when it stops being new and starts being effort.
Courage
Doing the thing you have been avoiding. It comes last because the first two are what make it possible.
It's already in you. The work is learning to use it.
You do not have to feel ready. You have to be willing to take one step, and then to keep taking them.
Reach Lindsey. The first fifteen minutes are free.
Hi, I'm Lindsey.
I have been there before.
I'm a licensed clinical social worker in Sandy, Utah, certified in EMDR and trained in DBT and ERP, with a master's in social work and a master's in public administration from the University of Utah, and about ten years of doing this work. In that time I've learned that the degrees matter, and that being heard matters more.
I've sat on the other side of this too. I know what it is to be supported while you find your own way through, and I know how much it helps when the pace is yours and nobody decides for you. I'll hold you to what you said you wanted, and I'll be honest with you about how long things take, because progress is real and it is rarely quick.
“Lindsey is an exceptional therapist who uses a number of evidence-based practices to help her clients. She is professional, organized, and knowledgeable. She has a plethora of experience in different settings where she has excelled mightily. I consistently ask if she is taking new clients when I need to make a referral.”
Kenji Hammon, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Reach out.
I'll call you back myself.
Say as much or as little as you like. My first question is usually just what brings you to therapy, and there's no judgment about the answer. I'll call at a time that works for you, and the first fifteen minutes are free, so you can decide whether this feels right before committing to anything.
I offer therapy in Sandy, Utah, close to Cottonwood Heights and Murray, and by telehealth anywhere in Utah.