About Lindy

Background

Hi! I'm glad you found my website. I'm Lindy.

I was diagnosed early with autism due to very apparent developmental delays. In many ways, I was lucky to have a diagnosis. I had some accommodations at school and since my parents told me about autism, I knew why my brain worked differently. I spent a lot of my life waiting for other people to catch up to the things that I knew.

There were also unlucky parts about having a diagnosis, like labels and prejudice. I always had a strong sense of justice with no outlet. I decided that when I grew up, I wanted to use the voice I worked so hard to develop in early intervention for a greater purpose.

Education & Experience

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Washington state (#LW61633234)
I worked as a paraeducator for students in middle and high school
I was Vice Chair of the Clark County Developmental Disabilities Advisory Board from 2021-2024, and value my working relationship with the community
I completed a year-long Leadership Academy in developmental disabilities advocacy through the non-profit PEACE NW, funded by a Washington state grant

Likes & Dislikes

Likes:

cats
lighthouses
knitting
malicious compliance
dissecting thematic elements in film & literature
geography

Dislikes:

shredded lettuce
loud noises
queueing
the design of the human knee
mean people

My orientation towards science in psychotherapy

I would describe myself as a science-brained person. I am interested in why things work. I was the annoying kid who would always ask "why?" until I was satisfied with the answer.

I learned that many things I was curious about had answers that didn't make sense to me: social norms, gender roles, economics, etc. As such, these answers left me unsatisfied.

I depended on my observational skills to gather as much data as I could in order to form hypotheses about the world around me. Through doing this, I developed special interests in subjects like epistemology, philosophy, and quantum mechanics.

But how do these relate to being a therapist? Well, they all have similar themes of uncertainty, interpreting reality, and causality... all themes that come up in therapy, even if not directly named. How do you know what you know? What would happen five years from now if you took action today?

I take more of a logic-oriented approach than a traditional, emotional-relational one, which freaked out my supervisors in graduate school. I wasn't like their other interns, but why would I want to be? All kinds of people struggle with their mental health, so we need all different kinds of therapists.

Through psychology, I have a better understanding now of the answers that didn't make sense to me then.

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