I'm Not Broken, I'm Just Gay with Lindsey Magner, MMFC-T (she/her)

 

Episode 103 - I'm Not Broken, I'm Just Gay with Lindsey Magner, MMFC-T (she/her)

by Karin Lewis, MA, LMFT, CEDS

We are honored to welcome Lindsey Magner, MMFC-T (she, her), Marriage and Family Therapist, specializing in trauma, LGBTQIA+, attachment, non-traditional family structures, relationships, and life transitions.

Join Karin and Lindsey for a conversation on the challenges of feeling broken and finding authentic self, the spiritual experience of loving your body, love as a feeling as opposed to an action, the intersection of eroticism and embodiment, examining pleasure outside of the confines of societal and religious beliefs, embracing sexual and spiritual transformation in recovery, recognizing the harm of performative lifestyles, inner child work, societal demands for self-denial, non-traditional family structures, the sanctity of truth, the act of “showing up” for yourself and others, what recovery is to Lindsey, and much more!

Lindsey Magner, MMFC-T (she, her), is a Marriage and Family Therapist, specializing in trauma, LGBTQIA+, attachment, non-traditional family structures, relationships, and life transitions. Lindsey’s vocational pull towards counseling has roots in her personal experience of walking through her trauma, addiction, and eating disorder; alongside therapists of her own, which saved her life.

Lindsey believes that trauma is at the heart of much of our suffering. Trauma, simply put, means that things happened to us that shouldn’t have or things that should have happened for us didn’t. The way we cope with our trauma can keep us hidden from ourselves and others, frozen in painful patterns, or feeling numb and robotic in our lives. She believes that everyone deserves to have a safe space to feel seen and known as they grapple with the beautiful, painful ambiguity of being human.

Looking beyond the “why” in one’s trauma, Lindsey has a deep passion for bringing clients beyond insight into the complex ecosystem of thoughts, emotions, and embodied experience.

Lindsey’s personal and clinical knowledge of the isolating, fragmented nature of trauma, life transition, and relationship struggles, allows Lindsey to help clients disconnect from harmful patterns that no longer serve them.

Lindsey uses integrative, experiential modalities (brain-spotting, poly-vagal theory, EFT, parts work, psychodrama, somatic tracking) and collaborative treatment planning to foster balance, calm the nervous system, and empower clients to begin the process of trusting themselves.