Indigo Weinstein, LCSW-C

Healing Work

Therapy with me: In our sessions, you’ll bring things from your life that you’ve been struggling with, or that you want to gain a stronger understanding of. I’ll help you feel safe and comfortable in the therapy space, and I’ll ask you questions to help both of us better understand what you’re experiencing. I may offer new ways of looking at what you’re dealing with or show you new skills for responding to situations you’re stuck on. I believe that you’re the expert on what you’re experiencing, and that you have been doing the best you can to get through challenging things. I’ve been told I have a calm, non-judgmental way of conducting sessions; I’ve been told that people feel like I “hit the nail on the head” in understanding what they’re experiencing.

My impacting identifies/roles that inform my work: I am white, transgender, fat, and neurodivergent.

I feel informed and knowledgeable about: anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic invalidation, autism, ADHD, executive dys/function, emotional dys/regulation, distress tolerance, LGBTQ+ experiences, COVID/long COVID science and risks, disability/chronic illness. My work is informed clinically by CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy), DBT (dialectical behavioral therapy), and parts work (informed by IFS (internal family systems).

I work best with clients who: identify as LGBTQ+, want to understand why they are struggling – and start to feel better, want to learn to set boundaries to improve relationships in their lives, have a history of feeling invalidated and want a nonjudgmental space, are tired of providers who tell them to lose weight.

I am not a good clinical fit for clients who: want in-person services (I am fully remote), struggle primarily with suicide and suicide attempts, and are under 18.

What makes me unique: As a therapist and social worker, everything I know about helping I’ve learned from others, clinicians and theorists and supervisors and workers who’ve worked hard to develop ways of helping others. My own personal manner of interacting with clients, and my personal understanding and synthesis of what I’ve learned, are unique to me, informed by what I’ve learned.

Learning and Growing

I recently completed an intensive training on couples and family therapy. Although the training obviously focused on couples and families, I’ve found it helpful to my individual work as well. I hope to start taking couples and families as clients in the future. I’ve been reading the work of Dr. Devon Price on autism and unmasking, including his book Unmasking Autism. I’ve read some of Aubrey Gordon’s work on fatness and fatphobia, including her book “You Just Need To Lose Weight” And 19 Other Myths About Fat People.

Fun Facts/Resilience Building

What resources me to build resilience: Maintaining a work-life balance that supports both work and life is very important to me. Outside of my scheduled work hours, I am busy engaging in many hobbies, and spending time with my partner and cat.

Education

• BA at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, 2017
• MSW at University of Maryland Baltimore, 2021