About Cynthia
Cynthia Benzing is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, anger, bipolar disorder, and depression. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps that reduce distress and restore daily functioning. Conversations are respectful and grounded, aimed at making small changes that add up over time.
Her work blends talking through thoughts and feelings with tools you can use between sessions. She often draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to challenge unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Mindfulness strategies are used to help people notice their experience without getting swept away by it. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) ideas appear in sessions when clients want to clarify values and take meaningful action despite difficult emotions. Client-centered principles guide the pace of therapy, so people set goals at a comfortable speed.
Existential themes are available when someone wants to tackle life meaning, loss, or big choices. Cynthia has seven years of experience in clinical settings and tailors plans to each person's history and needs. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, chronic illness or pain, and relationship and communication problems.
First responder stress, end-of-life and hospice concerns, and difficulties around guilt, shame, forgiveness, and grief are further areas she addresses. Sessions combine practical skill-building and open conversation. Cynthia aims to help people feel more capable of handling tense moments, make clearer decisions, and move toward a life they value.
How these approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people name their values and take action even when feelings are hard to face. Online sessions can use ACT exercises to build small, decided steps toward what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and rehearse different responses; in remote sessions this often looks like reviewing thought records, trying behavioral experiments, and practicing new skills between meetings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm, which works well in short check-ins or longer sessions depending on need.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's goals, daily routine, and comfort level. Together they try tools, adjust what isn’t helping, and focus on techniques that fit the client’s life.
Online therapy with Cynthia is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone prefers written conversation. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical routines while using the same clinical approaches as in-person care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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