About Cynthia
Cynthia Yanez offers a calm, practical way to work through big life challenges. They focus on helping people untangle old expectations that keep them stuck. Sessions aim to make confusing feelings easier to understand and less isolating.
Cynthia uses straightforward conversation to help people move toward clearer choices and more control. With ten years of experience and a Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credential, Cynthia blends listening with concrete tools.
Background and approach
The work often starts by building self-awareness and noticing patterns that cause stress or shame. From there, Cynthia helps people test new ways of responding in day-to-day life. Cynthia uses client-centered work to make room for each person’s values and goals.
Emotionally-focused ideas guide attention to what matters most in relationships and connection. Narrative techniques help people rewrite unhelpful stories they tell themselves. People bring a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, work stress, and questions about gender or sexual identity.
There is also experience addressing burnout and compassion fatigue for caregivers and first responders, and practical help around adoption, immigration, or fertility stress. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and can be scheduled in formats that fit everyday life. Cynthia aims to collaborate so clients leave with clearer next steps and manageable changes they can try between sessions.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. It helps people clarify their values, make choices that feel right, and build confidence in their decisions. Emotionally-focused therapy looks at the patterns that shape close relationships and helps people notice and change unhelpful ways of reacting. It is useful for addressing intimacy-related concerns and strong emotional reactions. Narrative therapy invites people to tell the stories they live by and to separate themselves from limiting labels, which can reduce shame and open up new possibilities.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cynthia will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs and goals. Together they set clear, practical steps and check in on what is helping and what may need to change. Clients are invited to give feedback so therapy stays relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let sessions feel more like in-person meetings when visual cues matter. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can work better when a face-to-face check-in is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until the right fit is found.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Coping with life changes
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Indiana
- Languages
- English, Spanish