About Cindy
Cindy Reyes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and the aftereffects of trauma. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 11 years of clinical experience to conversations that often feel urgent or overwhelming. Cindy aims to make sessions practical and approachable so parents and individuals can find steady steps forward.
She draws on work in community mental health to address everyday struggles and complex situations.
Background and approach
She helps people build coping skills for panic, low mood, and stress. She also supports those dealing with relationship strain, attachment wounds, and issues like abandonment or codependency. Cindy uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs.
Sessions focus on clear goals, skill practice, and real-world strategies that can be used between meetings. Mindfulness, structured thinking tools, and emotion-regulation skills are commonly part of the work. Her background includes a Master of Social Work and a California license as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW (CA LCSW 110395).
Over the years she has worked with diverse communities and handled a range of concerns from chronic illness and caregiver stress to trauma and domestic violence. Therapy with Cindy tends to be collaborative and straightforward. She helps people set practical steps, try new ways to cope, and track small changes.
The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Many clients benefit from methods that teach concrete skills for emotion regulation and clearer thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced ones; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy focuses on skills like distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness; it can be useful for strong emotions, relationship difficulties, and patterns like codependency.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to test techniques and adapt methods based on goals and preferences. This makes sessions feel tailored and helps clients learn what works in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexibility for different schedules. Video sessions allow for conversational depth, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, chat sessions work for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines and keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish