About

“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

- Viktor Frankl

Lindsay Mathews, PhD

I am a NY State Licensed Clinical Psychologist based in Brooklyn, NY. I have over 15 years of clinical experience working with individuals with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. I began my career working with individuals with serious mental illness, personality disorders, and a history of legal involvement. I have particular expertise working with people struggling with emotion dysregulation, trauma, and career/life transition stress. I have worked with adolescents, young adults, and older adults in a variety of settings—from outpatient community mental health to inpatient psychiatric to correctional settings.

I have been trained in various modalities, and have an integrated approach drawing from psychodynamic psychotherapy, humanistic, Dialectical-Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Mindfulness-based approaches, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), relational, and existential therapies. My approach to the therapeutic encounter is to embrace the uniqueness of each patient’s inner world, and explore it together. Often this involves slowing down, examining current experiences and stressors, as well as underlying core conflicts. When appropriate, specific coping skills will be provided and tailored to your individualized treatment needs.

I offer:

• Individual

• Couples

• Group

• Clinical Supervision

• Assessment

Professional background

I earned my Doctorate in Clinical Psychology with Forensic Specialty from John Jay College and the Graduate Center CUNY. During my clinical training, I worked with justice-involved adolescents within the NYC detention system, adults of diverse backgrounds dealing with a broad range of mental health issues including at Brooklyn College Counseling Program and Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. I completed my doctoral training at Elmhurst Hospital Center completing rotations on in psychiatric emergency, inpatient adult, inpatient adolescent, and with outpatient adults and families. I have a strong assessment background, including: civil and forensic psychological evaluation for diagnostic, intellectual, personality functioning and school-based purposes. I worked as a Clinical Supervisor for four years with NYC Health+Hospitals Correctional Health Services at Rikers Island, providing assessment, evaluation, and treatment for individuals with serious mental illness on specialized treatment units. I most recently worked at a thriving group practice for three years at Madison Park Psychological Services in NYC.