Lemecia Lindsey (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Supervisor. She has been in the mental health field for over 20 years. She has been in private practice in Vancouver, WA since 2009. In addition to private practice, she spent two years as a Clinic Coordinator and Clinical Supervisor/Mental Health Team Lead for a multidisciplinary group practice in Vancouver. Prior to her experience in private practice, she worked in both middle schools, high schools, alternative schools, residential programs for teens and community mental health.
She received her Bachelors in 1999 and Masters in Social Work in 2001 both from San Jose State University in San Jose California. Her theory of clinical supervision is psychodynamic, strengths based, integrative and trauma informed. She incorporates Developmental models of supervision and the Person of the Therapist model. She has been a WA Approved Clinical Supervisor for over 2 years and has a history of supervising San Jose State University Social Work interns from the Bachelors program. Besides her work as a Clinical Supervisor and Intern Supervisor she also has experience working with therapists as an EMDR consultant. She has trained and provided consultation to EMDR therapists for 9 years.
She has special interest in complex and developmental trauma, dissociation, somatic therapies and treatment of First Responders. She has specialized training in EMDR. She has been a Certified EMDR therapist for 11 years and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant for 9 years. She has advanced training in dissociation including, Ego State therapy and Structural Dissociation. She also draws from Internal Family Systems. She is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples including the Level 1 training, Core Skills Training and Externship. Lemecia is trained in LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback Systems) both Level 1 Basic Training and Level 2 Advanced. This provides her with an advanced understanding of brain-based science.
Lemecia has a gentle approach to support supervisees in their learning process and growth. She helps supervisees by focusing their attention on the therapeutic relationship they have with clients, to self-reflect on their own experiences, body sensations and emotions coming up in the counseling relationship with clients, assessment and diagnosis and interventions. She assists supervisees to focus on conceptualization of client issues.
Supervision focuses on the supervisee’s strengths, reflective activities to help supervisees find their own answers and self-assessment as well as supervision assessment. Lemecia uses Psychodynamic supervision that is collaborative and relational to empower the supervisee. She believes that the clinical therapeutic relationship promotes change for clients and sees supervisees and the change agent. Lemecia uses curiosity to help supervisees develop a narrative (sense of) who they are as counselors including exploring their own family of origin issues that can play out in their therapeutic relationship with clients and in supervision.
Lastly, Lemecia uses social justice principles, helping supervisees to explore their clients “social location” and supervisees biases, misconception and privilege as it relates to counter transference manifested in therapy. The power differential between supervisee and client is also taken into consideration.
Lemecia Lindsey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Washington Approved Clinical Supervisor. She abides by the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics.
She has been in the field for over 20 years. She received her Bachelors in Social Work in 1999 and Masters in Social Work in 2001 both from San Jose State University in San Jose California.
Specializations:
Her areas of specialization include: trauma, chronic stress, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, complex trauma/ C-PTSD, dissociation, healing from abuse: physical, sexual, emotional, and neglect; depression, anxiety and mood disorders; grief, low self-esteem, stress, relationship concerns (couples’ issues, marriage and divorce), recovery from addiction; and healing from dysfunctional family systems.
She’s worked in a variety of settings including, community mental health agencies, residential, day treatment facilities and schools. She has been in private practice and has owned her own business, Vancouver EMDR Therapy for over 15 years. She is now a Clinic Coordinator, therapist and Clinical Supervisor at Vancouver Wellness Studio.
Trainings:
She has special interest and training in working with clients with complex and developmental trauma, dissociation, somatic therapies and treatment of First Responders.
She has specialized training in EMDR (2012) and is a Certified EMDR (2014) therapist and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant (2017). Lemecia worked as an EMDR program assistant for Phil Manfield from 2015-2021. She has advanced training in dissociation including, Ego State therapy and Structural Dissociation. She also draws from Internal Family Systems (not formally trained from the Institute).
She is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples including the Level 1 training (2013), Core Skills Training (2014) and Externship (2015). Lemecia is trained in LENS (Low Energy Neurofeedback Systems) both Level 1 Foundations (2019) and Level 2 Intermediate (2019). This provides her with an advanced understanding of neuroscience. Lastly, Lemecia has received training as a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional.
Clinical Supervision:
Her theories of clinical supervision are Psychodynamic, Strengths Based, Humanistic, Integrative and Trauma Informed.
She incorporates Developmental models of supervision and the Person of the Therapist model. Lemecia has a gentle approach to support supervisees in their learning process and growth. She helps supervisees by focusing their attention on the therapeutic relationship they have with clients, to self-reflect on their own experiences, body sensations and emotions coming up in the counseling relationship with clients, assessment and diagnosis and interventions. She assists supervisees to focus on conceptualization of client problems.
Supervision focuses on the supervisees strengths, reflective activities to help supervisees find their own answers and self-assessment as well as supervision assessment.
Lemecia uses Psychodynamic supervision that is collaborative and relational to empower the supervisee. She believes that the clinical therapeutic relationship promotes change for clients and sees supervisees and the change agent. Lemecia uses curiosity to help supervisees develop a narrative (sense of) who they are as counselors including exploring their own family of origin issues that can play out in their therapeutic relationship with clients and in supervision.
Lastly, Lemecia uses social justice principles, helping supervisees to explore their clients “social location” and supervisees biases, misconception and privilege as it relates to counter transference manifested in therapy. The power differential between supervisee and client is also taken into consideration.