About Cynthia
Cynthia Wadsworth brings three decades of clinical social work experience to her practice. She uses those years to listen first and let each person tell their story. Cynthia is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - who focuses on helping people change the parts of life that feel stuck or painful.
She begins by asking what led someone to seek help now and what they hope will be different.
Background and approach
Cynthia pays attention to strengths while also naming realistic goals. Sessions are collaborative and practical, with steps that people can try between meetings. Cynthia works with many common struggles, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma.
She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting stress, career issues, sleeping problems, and chronic health challenges. She brings experience with LGBT and gender dysphoria issues, adoption and attachment concerns, and non-traditional relationship structures. Her approach draws on client-centered care, attachment-based ideas, mindfulness, psychodynamic thinking, and EMDR when trauma processing is needed.
That variety allows her to match methods to each person’s goals and pace. Cynthia focuses on the person rather than a label and adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. Conversations typically move at a steady, manageable pace.
Cynthia aims to make therapy feel useful and understandable. People who prefer clear goals, practical tools, and thoughtful listening tend to fit well with her style.
How Cynthia’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Cynthia combines client-centered work, attachment-based ideas, and EMDR into a flexible online approach. Client-centered therapy focuses on your perspective and goals, offering supportive listening and practical feedback that translates well to video or phone sessions. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people change how they connect and feel supported with others, useful for relationship strain and intimacy concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that can help process painful memories; elements of EMDR can be adapted to remote formats when appropriate.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Cynthia will talk through your history, symptoms, and goals to recommend methods that fit your needs and comfort level. She adjusts the plan as you progress and checks in regularly to make sure the work feels helpful and on pace.
Online therapy offers clear practical benefits. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions or check in when typing feels easier. These options create flexibility for scheduling and make it easier to keep momentum between meetings.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Cynthia address?
How would you describe her therapy style?
What background and experience does she bring?
What are her professional credentials and location?
Which languages are supported in sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Louisiana
- Languages
- English