Lindsay Braman - Therapist & Psychoeducator

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Lindsay Braman - Therapist & Psychoeducator

Artist, psychotherapist, & educator. I create engaging mental health infographics to help make mental health education accessible to all.

08/31/2026

When I interned in community mental health, I sometimes helped clients create a , and as they left the clinic with the agency-approved printout (that felt way more like a legal document than a roadmap to care) I knew deep down that if that paper made it home, it was going straight to the bottom of a drawer.

That's when I started thinking about alternative forms of planning for ways to access care on really bad days that kept the key ingredients while updating the format to something that people would *want* to keep visible, keep nearby, and refer back to often.

That thought process is how I created my latest project: a guided junk journal designed for people who could use a book of visual reminders of ways to care for themselves.

My guided junk journal is part journal, part scrapbook, part self-care workbook, and part art project. It’s for spreading out on your dining table to work on independently or as an activity in ( like a more creative alternative to a ) . It’s a way to engage serious self care and even readiness through a lens of play, creativity, and self expression.

Get the guided junk journal for radical self care on Patreon (LindsayBraman) or my website.

08/05/2026

If we don't get the chance to learn from well-regulated adults when we're growing up, learning how to regulate emotions as an adult is a SUPER challenging task. For decades, had some catch-all diagnoses and a lot of dismissal for folks left to figure out this task as teens and adults. Marsha Linehan, the creator of and someone who'd been on the client side of and experienced the failures of then-current models, did something remarkable. She developed a new model- a model that breaks down the extremely complex task of growing the ability to regulate emotions into a set of skills. If learned, practiced, and added to our vocabulary one at a time, the skills stack to create a skillset very similar to how people raised by supportive, nurturing, and emotionally mature parents intuitively navigate big feelings.

DBT is a therapy model that includes 1:1 therapy as well as learning and practicing skills in a group setting. I created the DBT Activity Book as a user-friendly accessible alternative to workbooks

07/17/2026

My neurodivergent study habits become one of Amazon's top reviewed study guide for the NCE. ✨✨✨ Making this study guide and now getting to hear from how many people it's helping pass the affirms so much for about why it's important to support- not try and change- people who think in different ways. Keep being weird, ya'll- your unique way of seeing and translating the world can be a doorway to help others to do the hard things they're struggling with.

I was so scared to take the NCE that I waited YEARS after graduating to sign up for this exam that's required for full licensing as a . When I finally started studying, the study materials available felt completely inaccessible to me as a visual thinker. So I buckled down and did what I had to do through my whole academic journey- dive into existing resource, extract the key ideas, and translate them into the format my brain thinks in: illustrations, visuals, and color. Now, everyone has access to my visual notes through my Patreon and this study guide.

For a limited time, I have some "used" NCE Visual Study Guides for sale on my website at a deep discount. They're not really used (in fact, they've all been checked and confirmed no one wrote in them!) but may have dinged or dented covers.

07/14/2026

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) include hair-pulling ( ), skin-picking, and some types of nail-biting. When these types of behaviors cross from being an occasional nervous habit to a near constant compulsion, it can be hard to know how to respond well.

I took this page of notes while listening to Saint Louis-based and expert, Dr Laura Chackes Psy.D. talk on the topic.

This art illustrates:
🧠 How BFRBs function (and why stopping isn't just about willpower)
🚫 Myths
💡 What treatment actually looks like today.

Download the full sketchnote via my bio or on Patreon. $6/mo Patreons also have access to download this art formatted as a printable zine!

07/08/2026

This is the Emotion Sensation Wheel. Whether it's familiar to you or completely new, I wanted to introduce you to how to use it.

There are (at least) two ways to use it, and neither one is wrong.

Most people use it from the outside in: locating the body sensation they're experiencing, then working backward to find the emotion that often accompanies that sensation.

But there's a second way to use it, and it can be really helpful for people who have had to numb out a lot of body sensations to survive: To practice rebuilding those connections between brain and body, you can use it from the inside out: start by locating an emotion, then move outward and explore whether the most common body sensation is present for you.

And here's the cool thing- it's ok if that sensation doesnt match for you! The point is to give us some hints and signposts to look for. Or to plant a flag if, it turns out, that landmark in your body is a little farther north or south. That's why the DBT activity book has a second BLANK sensation wheel so you can make your own custom wheel.

The Emotion Sensation Wheel is included in my Activity Book, and you can also find it as a PDF, sticker, or standalone resource via the link in my profile.

06/23/2026

The hardest part of is facing down a blank page, so I made a guided filled with prompts for helping build your own big beautiful reference book of methods that work for YOU.

Designed to print on a home printer and be added to a three ring binder, you can print the 70+ page PDF on my Patreon and get started creating your own junk journaled self care binder today.

06/16/2026

I'd ride anywhere with these two- especially if the destination is breaking patterns holding me back. ✨❤️⭐

This spring, while egregiously procrastinating both my guided junk journal for mental health project AND my project translating DSM diagnostic information into one-page visual explainers, I drew a couple coloring book pages for Patreon. Ok, well, I designed *dozens* of little line illustrations, like this one, about and - the coloring book pages are available for download on my Patreon, but I also made stickers!

Right now this sticker (and all my 3" single stickers) are on sale!

06/15/2026

I made my activity book because it was the resource *I* needed but didn't have access to when I was learning DBT. Its not standard with a cute filter, I went ground-up on this project- studying the base concepts, paying attention to where my brain struggled to grasp ideas in the typical clinical format, and then reimagining playful, creative ways to visually communicate them for visual thinkers, people, and folks in both categories with or other issues for which DBT can be helpful.

Wanna learn more? Follow for more page closeups and flip throughs- or go ahead and grab a copy for yourself. I prefer if you get yours through the link in my profile, but you can also find it on Amazon (where it's rated 5.0 ⭐!)

06/03/2026

Most feeling wheels focus on internal experience: how things feel for us. But research suggests that one way we build empathy, social skills, and compassion (especially during childhood) is by practicing noticing how people are behaving and then wondering, based on those observations, how they might be feeling.

After learning about this, I thought it might be helpful to create a wheel connecting emotions with common behaviors that can stem from those emotions. But it was tricky! Because of factors like , people can respond to the same emotion in very different ways.

Even with that challenge, I'm really proud of this resource. People using it as a and resource report that it's been especially helpful, particularly when paired with my emotion sensation

also, sorry about the voice edit- something happened in the frame speed edit. 😅

05/29/2026

On Patreon, I'm slowly inching forward on a project in which I visually translate information in the DSM about specific diagnoses into visual reference sheets. Here's a peek at the page for - what disorders would you like to see represented next?

I think this is an important one to talk about because contrary to pop culture's framing, Agoraphobia isn’t actually a fear of leaving home. It's more nuanced- and generally more about becoming stuck in a situation where escape feels difficult or help feels unavailable.

When starts attaching itself to places, crowds, public transit, or even being alone in public, avoidance can slowly make a person’s world smaller and smaller- that's how agoraphobia starts. It improves when, with good care and access to good tools, we can start expanding our capacity to be in the world again.

Gentle reminder that social media is not therapy and my resources are educational, not therapeutic.

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