About Cynthia
Cynthia Young is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of practice. She brings 26 years of experience and holds LCSW licensure in Florida and California. Cynthia emphasizes a straightforward, compassionate approach for people who are facing hard moments.
She creates a calm space where clients can say what they really feel. Sessions focus on practical skills, gentle reflection, and clear goals. Cynthia encourages small steps that add up to real change.
Background and approach
Her work addresses common and complex concerns like stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She also helps people coping with life changes, career stress, addictive behaviors, and compassion fatigue. Trauma, abuse, anger, and ADHD are among other areas she supports.
Cynthia draws on several therapy styles to match what each person needs. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and emotion- and skills-based methods. These are chosen to fit the problem at hand and the client’s personal goals.
Clients can expect clear guidance, practical techniques, and steady support during hard decisions. Cynthia helps people build coping skills, repair relationships, and manage difficult emotions. Her aim is to help clients move toward a more manageable and meaningful life.
Approach and Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It can help when anxiety, depression, or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical techniques to reduce unhelpful patterns like worry or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape current connections and can help with trust, abandonment issues, or relationship patterns.Finding the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, and then try approaches that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made as progress and challenges become clearer.
Online therapy with Cynthia is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets you use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone prefers writing their thoughts. These options are designed to make it easier to use therapeutic tools on a schedule that fits everyday life.
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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
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English