Lynn Vinson, LCSW

Lynn Vinson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California with 10 years of experience as a licensed therapist and more than 20 years of work in social services. Her background includes roles as a child protective social worker, hospital social worker, and positions in two psychiatric health facilities across two states, as well as private practice and recent work as a psychotherapist in a family health clinic. She has also served on an after-hours crisis intervention team focused on crisis triage.

She primarily provides therapy to adults while also working with teenagers when appropriate. Her clinical style is eclectic, drawing on cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and positive psychology to tailor care to each person. She describes herself as nonjudgmental and strives to create an environment of acceptance and trust. Lynn holds faith-based values but does not impose those beliefs on others. As a clinician she emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while collaborating with clients to develop individualized treatment plans.

Her specialties include support for stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, self-esteem concerns, depression, family and attachment issues, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related matters, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and caregiver stress, anger, career concerns, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. She also offers pre-weight loss surgery consultation and therapy, informed by her own weight loss surgery in 2004. Lynn is 73 and brings decades of varied social work and clinical experience to her therapeutic work.