About Cynthia
Cynthia "Cindi" Crew is a licensed independent social worker with 25 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, direct style to sessions and focuses on practical ways to manage daily stressors and emotional overwhelm. She often uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy, along with client-centered and trauma-focused approaches, to help people learn skills that reduce distress.
Sessions are grounded in clear routines, skill practice, and steady support. Cynthia emphasizes real-world tools that can be used between appointments.
Background and approach
Cindi works with people dealing with anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, and the fallout from trauma or abuse. She also helps those struggling with grief, compassion fatigue, life changes, anger, and challenges tied to ADHD. The focus is on building coping plans and strengthening strengths you already have.
Her practice in Ohio applies techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when needed to reframe unhelpful thoughts and build manageable behavior changes. She blends that with trauma-focused work when past events continue to affect day-to-day life. The goal is to reduce symptoms and increase functioning, step by step.
Cindi describes therapy as a collaborative process. She listens first, then helps clients set concrete goals. Over time she refines strategies so they fit each person’s routine and values.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to your needs. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you set goals that fit your life. This approach is useful for people who want space to talk and to shape their own pace of change.Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, handling conflict, and reducing impulsive behavior. Sessions often include coaching on skills practice, tracking progress, and building a step-by-step plan to reduce crisis moments. DBT techniques can be helpful for mood regulation, anger, and persistent distress.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options, try strategies, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist work together to choose techniques that match goals, daily routines, and personal preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat are useful for quick updates, skill reminders, or when you want to write through thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when travel or time constraints arise.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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