About Cynthia
Cynthia Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of experience. She practices in Florida and offers a calm, straightforward presence for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life transitions. Cynthia focuses on helping people take practical steps toward more manageable days.
She creates an open space where clients can talk without judgment. Sessions center on clear goals and real strategies, not jargon. Cynthia listens for what's getting in the way and helps identify small changes that can make a difference.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work with trauma, grief, addiction, and relationship struggles. She combines several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. That might mean learning new coping skills, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, or exploring attachment and relationship dynamics.
Cynthia uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment work to help people respond differently to difficult thoughts and feelings. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to address patterns that come from early relationships. Many people come to Cynthia feeling overwhelmed by caregiving stress, career strain, or family-of-origin problems.
She helps them sort priorities, set boundaries, and rebuild routines that support better functioning. Practical problem solving matters in her work. Her style is steady and collaborative.
Cynthia encourages small experiments between sessions and checks progress together. She helps people take the next step, whatever that looks like for them.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and daily coping skills training. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then taking value-driven actions. This can help with anxiety, chronic stress, and living with persistent symptoms like ADHD-related struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people shift long-standing interaction styles that cause pain. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cynthia will talk with each person about goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. She checks in and adapts techniques over time so the work stays practical and relevant. Online therapy offers real flexibility. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit into busy days, help with quick coaching, or support homework between sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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