About Cindy
Cindy Cothran is a licensed counselor who aims to make first steps into therapy easier. She approaches sessions with warmth, straightforward language, and a touch of gentle humor to help people feel understood. Her work is rooted in respect and a belief that everyone deserves thoughtful care.
Cindy has 18 years of experience as a clinician, and she adapts her methods to match each person's goals. She uses an attachment-based stance and draws from client-centered ideas to focus on what matters to the client.
Background and approach
She also incorporates techniques from dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR when appropriate. In sessions she listens closely and helps people identify practical steps they can try between meetings. She commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life changes.
ADHD and mood concerns are also among the issues she addresses in her practice. Cindy works with people on relationship and communication problems, codependency, and difficulties that trace back to family of origin. She also supports those navigating non-traditional relationship styles, sexual identity and kink-related topics without judgment.
Practical skills, coping strategies, and tracking progress are part of her approach. People who choose Cindy can expect a collaborative process where goals are clear and adjusted over time. She blends evidence-based tools with an easygoing, sincere manner.
Her aim is to help clients move toward the life they want to live.
Approaches and online options for flexible care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and self-view. This approach helps people understand patterns that affect closeness, trust, and communication and supports practical changes in how they relate to others.Client-centered therapy centers the person's own goals and experience. The therapist listens without judgment and helps the client name priorities, find strengths, and try new ways of coping. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and coping with stress in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That may mean using listening-based support at first and adding skill work or EMDR techniques over time as goals become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging is helpful for ongoing contact and brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to maintain consistent work while balancing school, work, or family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, California
- Languages
- English
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