About Cynthia
Cynthia Fradl is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, direct approach for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She uses practical, evidence-based methods and focuses on what helps most in day-to-day life.
Sessions are conversational and interactive. Cynthia aims to treat each person with respect and without labels. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, bipolar disorder, and challenges with sleep or eating.
Background and approach
She also helps people manage relationship problems, communication struggles, caregiver stress, and career transitions. Phobias are among the specific issues she lists as a focus area. Cynthia has worked in nonprofits, hospitals and schools, which gives her experience with many different needs and settings.
She also has experience supporting people with long-term mental health challenges such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Her approach blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, client-centered methods, emotionally-focused ideas, and mindfulness. Cynthia adapts the conversation and plan to each person's goals and situation.
She emphasizes practical steps and steady support as someone works toward a more manageable life. She invites people who are ready to take a first step to reach out and begin a plan that fits their needs and pace.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real-life experiences. It is useful for anxiety, depression, phobias, and changing everyday habits.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without letting them dictate actions, and clarifies personal values to guide change. It often helps with stress, worry, and coping with life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Cynthia works collaboratively to see which methods fit a person's goals and preferences, and adjusts techniques as needed over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more convenient. Video lets people have a face-to-face conversation, phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help clients fit therapy into work, caregiving, and other daily responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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