About Cynthia
Cynthia Roe is a licensed clinical social worker in California with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and mood challenges while also addressing trauma and abuse. Cynthia supports clients facing substance concerns, relationship and family stresses, grief, and the complex emotions that come with caregiving and illness.
She has a long history of working with people affected by cancer and with those navigating LGBTQI+ related issues, gender dysphoria, adoption and foster care concerns, and attachment struggles.
Background and approach
Cynthia also helps people facing parenting strain, career stress, ADHD, and the fallout from family of origin problems. Her approach is respectful and straightforward. In sessions she adapts to each person’s needs and goals.
Dialogue and practical planning are shaped around what matters to the client. She uses clear tools and strategies to address thoughts, behaviors, and relationship patterns. Clients can expect a collaborative process that balances emotional understanding with concrete steps.
Cynthia emphasizes building coping skills, improving communication, and addressing painful memories at a pace that feels manageable. She aims to help people find more satisfying ways to cope and connect. Cynthia holds the Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, LCSW.
She provides services in English and works with adults across many life stages to address a wide range of concerns.
How her approaches work online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past relationships shape current connections. It helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or feeling supported with others by looking at patterns that began early in life and shaping different ways of relating now.Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters, and follows the client’s pace so conversations lead to clearer decisions and emotional relief.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood regulation because it teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cynthia will talk with each person about what they need and prefer, and together they will pick or combine methods that suit their goals. That collaboration helps tailor sessions so people make steady progress without pushing past their comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send messages between sessions or use shorter, frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or health demands while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English