About Cynthia
Cynthia Prince, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship concerns. She brings 38 years of practice in social work to sessions and aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for worried parents and individuals. She prefers plain talk and practical steps over labels.
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what can help you feel steadier. She mixes evidence-informed methods to match each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed approach.
Background and approach
Cynthia has worked in a wide range of settings across New York, including correctional facilities, residential programs, outpatient clinics, emergency room evaluations, and family medical centers. That breadth shaped a practical style that supports people with mood disorders, trauma and abuse histories, ADHD, grief, and relationship or parenting strains. Her style is warm and down-to-earth.
She uses humor and a light touch when it fits the person. An emotional support pet sometimes joins sessions in a playful way to ease tension. In the first meetings Cynthia listens to what matters most and builds a simple plan you both agree on.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and other methods to teach coping skills, manage anxiety, and address patterns that cause pain. Work is paced to match each person’s goals. People who value direct guidance and a practical focus often find this style helpful.
Cynthia aims to make getting help less scary and to support clearer steps toward feeling better.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, behaviors, and emotions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, depression, sleeping or eating concerns, and anger management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cynthia collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She tailors techniques over time rather than sticking to a single label, and she checks in about what is helping and what needs adjustment.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work face to face for skill practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and messaging support quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or continuing work between sessions. These options offer flexibility so therapy can fit around school, work, caregiving, or other daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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