Penny Lindey, L.S.W.

Meet Penny Lindey, L.S.W.

Penny has more than 30 years of experience providing social work and behavioral health services across medical, outpatient, community mental health, educational, and family service settings. She currently serves as a Social Worker at Shriners Children's Erie, where she provides psychosocial assessments, care coordination, crisis intervention, patient advocacy, and interdisciplinary treatment planning. Throughout her career, she has worked with individuals and families experiencing medical conditions, mental health concerns, vision impairment, and significant life transitions.

Her professional experience includes:

• Medical Social Work
• Hospital Care Coordination
• Community Mental Health
• Family-Based Mental Health Services
• School-Based Behavioral Health
• Crisis Intervention and De-escalation
• Case Management
• Patient and Family Advocacy

Penny works with children, adolescents, adults, and families and is trained to work with most areas of clinical disorder. She utilizes evidence-based counseling approaches while integrating Christian faith when desired by the client.

She has experience working with:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Crisis Intervention
• Dual Diagnosis
• Divorce and Life Transitions
• Spiritual Concerns
• Family Conflict
• Trauma
• Medical and Chronic Health Conditions
• Scoliosis Mental Health Support

Penny’s faith-based counseling approach incorporates Biblical principles and prayer into sessions to help clients address the problems they face.

Penny sees clients at our Erie Peach Street, Pennsylvania office.