About Cynthia
Cynthia Prince is a licensed clinical social worker with 38 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship and family struggles, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, grief, and parenting concerns. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, bipolar challenges, self-esteem and intimacy issues, and work or career stress.
She has spent decades in a variety of settings. Her background includes work in state services, emergency room psychiatric evaluations, residential programs, and outpatient care at a family medical center.
Background and approach
That mix shaped a straightforward, practical approach to therapy. In sessions she focuses on what is useful for each person. She prefers clear, down-to-earth conversation over labels.
Cynthia uses cognitive and behavior-based strategies and adapts them to individual needs. She often brings warmth and humor into the room and sometimes mentions a friendly emotional support pet to lighten the mood. She draws on several therapeutic methods to guide treatment.
That includes techniques to manage emotions, build coping skills, and repair interpersonal patterns rooted in attachment. Cynthia aims to help people build habits that reduce anxiety and improve relationships. Her practice style is collaborative and direct.
She works with people who want hands-on tools and real changes in daily life. Cynthia is based in New York and holds a New York LCSW license, and she offers sessions to people both locally and internationally.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life actions. It teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that get in the way of daily life.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand their emotional bonds and improve how they relate to others, which can ease conflict and build closer connections.
Finding the right method is part of the work. Cynthia will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. She adapts techniques as progress is made and decides with each person which approaches to emphasize.
Online therapy offers useful flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and have deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work for brief updates, skill practice, or when a shorter contact fits the day. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, caregiving, and other responsibilities while still getting steady support from a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English