Therapy Group of Charlotte
Dr. Thomas Lindquist, Psy.D.
Doing fine on the outside & not quite fine underneath
About Dr. Lindquist
Maybe you’re outwardly doing fine — capable, accomplished, holding it all together — and yet something underneath isn’t sitting right. People come to me for all kinds of reasons: feeling anxious or stretched thin, low or burned out, wondering whether drinking or another habit has crept past where they’d like it to be, noticing the same patterns repeat at work or with the people closest to them, or working through a hard transition and bigger questions about direction.
My approach is psychodynamic, which means that rather than only easing symptoms, we work to understand the patterns underneath them — where they came from, and how they still shape the present. That is slower than a technique, and it tends to hold better. Over time, people I work with feel less ruled by the worry that wears them down, have more energy for what actually matters to them, and understand themselves clearly enough that the changes they make stay made.
“The point isn’t to explain your past. It’s to stop being quietly governed by it.”
Tom Lindquist, Psy.D., Therapist Charlotte
My Approach
I’m calm and attentive rather than directive. I’d rather understand you properly than arrive quickly at a formulation, and I’ll adjust how I work to fit you rather than the other way round. Alongside psychodynamic work I use cognitive behavioural methods where something practical is needed, and there’s a person-centred foundation under all of it — I take your account of your own life as the authoritative one.
I’m comfortable with the things people find hardest to raise. If part of what brought you here is a habit you’ve been managing carefully in your own head — how much you’re drinking, something you haven’t said out loud to anyone — I’d rather you were able to say it plainly and early, without bracing for a reaction. Very little surprises me, and none of it changes how I see you.
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Much of my work is with men, with people in midlife asking what the rest of it is for, and with high-functioning professionals whose competence has become the thing hiding the problem. I worked in college counselling centres before joining this practice, I’ve taught psychology at graduate level, and I’m a member of the American Psychological Association. I see clients entirely online across North Carolina, Washington, DC, and several other states — which means the right therapist isn’t limited to who happens to practise near you.
If you want to understand what’s actually going on rather than manage it more efficiently, and you’d like someone steady in the room while you do — that’s the work I’m here for.
Educational Background
Common Questions
My goal is to hear your story and understand you and your experience as fully as I can. I won’t be working through a checklist. I’d rather follow what seems important to you and ask about the parts you skip past. By the end I hope you feel some interest in what we might do together — not that everything is resolved, but that the work looks worth doing.
It means we pay attention to what’s underneath the symptom rather than only to the symptom. Most persistent patterns — the same argument, the same slump after a success, the same reason it never seems like the right time — were formed somewhere, usually long before you could examine them. We look at where they came from and how they still operate now. It’s slower than being handed a technique, and in my experience the changes people make this way tend to last, because they understand why they’re making them.
Yes, and that’s often exactly the right time to raise it. A lot of people arrive not with a crisis but with a quiet uncertainty about whether something has crept past where they’d like it to be. You don’t need a label or a conclusion before we can look at it together. I’m not going to tell you what it means or push you toward a decision you haven’t reached — I’d rather understand what it’s doing for you first.
I work entirely online, seeing clients across North Carolina, Washington, DC, and other states where I’m licensed. It means we can do focused, in-depth work over video from somewhere you feel comfortable, without building a commute into an already full schedule — and it means the right fit matters more than the drive.
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