Lynet Uttal, LCSW

Lynet Uttal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who combines practical problem solving with empathic listening to help people feel more comfortable with themselves. She works with clients on immediate concerns like difficult relationships as well as on persistent wounds from the past that continue to cause pain. Lynet also supports people weighing major decisions or seeking motivation for personal projects, whether that means writing a book, adopting healthier habits, or exploring purpose and meaning in life.

As a social worker she attends to the wider conditions of a client's life - finances, housing, work, family roles, and caregiving responsibilities - and will help identify resources or supports when needed. She teaches skills for managing anxiety and depression while also exploring the underlying causes of distress so clients gain deeper understanding and practical options for change. Her approach blends careful listening with thoughtful questions to co-create a nuanced picture of what is troubling someone and how they want life to be different.

Lynet offers coaching-style guidance when desired, helping clients change patterns of interaction and daily routines so they feel more at ease in their lives. She has experience supporting people through job changes, firings, relationship transitions, beginning healthy relationships, and navigating parent-adult child dynamics. She often helps clients reframe regrets into stories that are easier to live with rather than continue to suffer over.

She provides interpreter-mediated therapy when language barriers require an interpreter and has worked with Latine communities, Muslims, people from India, Hmong clients, and many parents who are US-born children of immigrants. As the daughter of a Japanese immigrant, Lynet brings a personal interest in the tensions that arise when people live between cultures. She aims to tailor each course of work to the individual so therapy fits who the person is and what they are facing.