About Cyndi
Cyndi Cynthia Oberdan is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of practice in behavioral health. She brings practical experience from hospital, emergency department, and community settings. She aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on real-life needs.
Her path includes work with people who have developmental and intellectual disabilities, running respite and community habilitation programs, and supporting individuals of varied ages to reach daily living goals. She also has experience in child welfare as an investigator and in medical social work offering crisis intervention, case management, and counseling.
Background and approach
Cyndi uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's situation. She draws on client-centered work, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and relationship-focused techniques when helpful. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer communication, and small steps toward change.
Typical concerns she helps address include stress, anxiety, depression, coping with life changes, ADHD, sleep problems, addictions, and parenting strain. She also supports people facing trauma, attachment questions, blended family issues, and the stress of caregiving. Her work includes attention to relationship and intimacy-related issues and career or life-purpose questions.
Therapy with Cyndi usually involves setting clear goals and trying techniques between sessions. She aims to make each meeting useful and to help people notice small gains. Sessions are offered in English and take place with an emphasis on fitting care to daily life.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following a person's priorities. It helps people feel heard and guides sessions around what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that help during intense emotions and relationship strain.Deciding which approach to use is a joint process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what works best in day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging offer shorter check-ins and a way to work through thoughts between meetings. These options help make regular care easier to fit into busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English