Consulting & Advisory Services
The bulk of individuals impacted by psychosocial and emotional health symptoms reside in low- and middle-income countries, often lacking access to adequate support systems. My work is dedicated to bridging this gap. I offer a spectrum of professional services geared towards facilitating program design, management, and monitoring. Additionally, I engage in tool and guideline development while fostering the skills and capacities of both practitioners and community members. Through empowerment initiatives, the aim is to cultivate resilience and promote thriving within communities.
My Services
Program Design
Starting with a needs assessments and desk review, key informant interviews and FGDs, I use a collaborative design process to ensure stakeholder feedback and participatory engagement to define best practices and inform MHPSS programming, develop theories of change, and strategies to help you design your programs.
Tools & Guidelines
With an in-depth knowledge and understanding of global MHPSS and protection guidelines and experience working in a range of geographies and contexts, I can help you contextualize tools, guidelines, and standards to meet the needs of the populations you are working with. Most recently, I co-developed mental health integration guidelines for USAID Missions to use within their work in LMICs.
Training & Facilitation
I have experience designing and leading trainings pn MHPSS, protection, and GBV in development and humanitarian settings, including PFA, safeguarding, burnout, vicarious trauma, stress management, self-care for humanitarians, etc. It is important to work alongside the existing infrastructure to fill in the MHPSS access gaps through ethical and sustainable capacity building. Therefore, I use a train-the-trainer model, and work closely with community partners to ensure cultural sensitivity and relevance.
Recent Experience
PSS Training Facilitator, Search for Common Ground
I facilitated a session for the Inside Mediators conference in Nairobi, Kenya - introducing ideas of psychosocial support, vicarious trauma, and the importance of self-care for mediators working on the peace processes in Niger, Burundi, and Zimbabwe.
Team Leader, Save the Children
As part of Education Cannot Wait’s Multi-Year Resilience Program, I led a team to assess the MHPSS needs and strengths of schools and communities in South Sudan by conducting a mixed methods approach including focus group interviews, key informant interviews, a safety audit, and a literature review.
MHPSS & Child Protection Consultant, POMA Global
Recent projects include co-development of a practical guide and quality standards for legal assistance for children in conflict with the law in the EU. I also worked as Team Leader/MHPSS Specialist to develop & facilitate a PSS training for child protection staff in Libya. Most recently, our team designed PSS psychoeducation materials for children and their caregivers displaced by Russia’s recent invasion into Ukraine.
“Lindsay will meet you where you are; her professionalism, cultural competency, and adaptability are valuable assets. She has experience supporting multiple large-scale public health programs and understands the complex social systems in which they operate. She is intuitive, empathetic, principled, and understands the importance of employing evidence-based approaches.”
Katherine Williams, MPH & MSW