Lindsay Miedema MSW, Hamilton, ON (2025)

Lindsay Miedema is a Registered Social Worker ( #822018) with diverse clinical experience. Lindsay believes it is a profound privilege to walk alongside her clients in their mental health journey. When working with Lindsay you can expect a genuine caring, accepting and compassionate approach. Lindsay's main area of focus in therapy is with those struggling with: Anxiety, Post Traumatic Stress Diso

rder and Disordered Eating/ Negative Body Image. Lindsay has experience supporting and counselling adults, adolescents and children (age 10 and up) who are experiencing various mental health issues. Lindsay uses the following treatment modalities: Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, Self Compassion, Emotion Focused Individual Therapy and Accelerated Resolution Therapy. When working with families, Lindsay uses an Emotion Focused Parenting approach. When participating in treatment with Lindsay for Disordered Eating/ Negative Body Image struggles, she comes from a Health At Every Size (HAES) (R), Anti Diet Culture perspective and is Intuitive Eating informed.

12/19/2024

Of course….. I am sitting here reflecting on 2024, and the gratitude I have for every one of my clients.
It has been an amazing transition to CCP and I am thankful to be a part of this group practice.
I am so fortunate and grateful for your trust this past year.
Thank you for sharing with me all your pain, strength, tears, joy, struggles and triumphs. I am looking forward to continuing to support you in 2025.

05/31/2024

I understand why we as a society have a difficult time with grief.
Grief is the most incredible emotional pain to experience. It is too relatable, it is too close to our worst fears.
There is no solving, no solutions, we cannot fix it.
There are many people grieving in a multitude of ways:
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The person you loved so dearly has died, that past situation cannot be changed, the childhood you needed/deserved didn’t happen, the relationship is broken, the pregnancy was lost, the diagnosis came too late, the life you envisioned is different, you were misunderstood for so long.
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If you speak to anyone experiencing grief they don’t want or need you to fix it for them...
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They need you to not look away.
They need you to bear witness to their pain, meaning: “I will not look away, I will feel this with you”.
Grief feels like you can’t breathe. Grief feels lonely, grief feels like you are walking through water. Grief feels endless. Grief feels misunderstood. Grief feels discounted and pushed aside. Grief hits you like a tidal wave. Grief changes you forever.
And using the words of Kate Bowler , grief makes you feel like “the bad thing”. The one who is always sad in the midst of joy. The one who carries immense pain when everyone wants you to just smile. You feel like maybe you need to hide your pain because it feels too much.
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To those grieving, please know you do not need to hide your pain.
Your therapist won’t look away from your pain. We hate this pain for you. We see you. We wish it didn’t happen. We wish life was different and better for you. We want to hear your story.
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Please tell us again why this loss hurts.
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Please keep telling us about what has happened to you.
We are listening

02/22/2024

The amount of shame around food management.
It’s hard because it is hard. Not because you are failing.
Why is it hard?
If you struggle with depression or ex*****on functioning differences on top of trying to survive in this world you know why it’s hard.
It’s hard because there are alot of steps to plan a meal. Groceries, forgot the bags, scrambling to hold all in one hand. Forgot that ingredient. Ran out of time. Food that you expected to use expired in the fridge.
You have sensory issues and the store ran out of the few foods that you can eat or it’s just too difficult to buy them right now.
There are a lot of things to decide around food. What should I make? Does my family like it? How much? Timeframe? Not to mention this decision making is plagued with so many diet culture expectations until we feel frozen in the spot not sure what to do.
Your child doesn’t like what you cooked.
You forgot to take the frozen meat out.
Your medication has changed your appetite.
Did I miss anything? ;)
Some days we can maybe cook some meals. A lot of us need pre made meals or “less step” meals. And other times we are ordering last minute pizza.
No one is out here rocking it. No one has magical matching tupperware with a whole meal plan. It’s hard because it’s hard.
Please do what you need to do today to just eat.

01/11/2024

Thinking about how it’s such a gift to see my clients care for themselves during hard times.
*I’m going through a depressive episode this has no factor in my progress, how can care for myself through it?”
* “I’m having a hard time being compassionate with myself, I’m going to reach out to someone who can be for me
today
*Saying no, saying yes, more take out/ accessible meals, hiring a cleaner, not cleaning, sponge baths, any food is fuel, asking for more body doubling (and maybe we need to use these all the time!) What would you add to this list?!

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Hamilton, ON

Website

https://lindsaymiedematherapy.janeapp.com/

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