About Cynthia
Cynthia Herndon is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 20 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive approach that centers the person in the room. Cynthia focuses on practical steps to ease symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, or mood concerns.
Cynthia has worked across hospitals, outpatient clinics, homeless outreach, and rural settings. That range has given her practical experience helping people with addictions, mood disorders, trauma, and the strain that comes with caregiving and aging.
Background and approach
She also has familiarity with advance directives and guardianship questions, which can be important when health or decision-making changes occur. Her style emphasizes collaboration. Cynthia encourages active participation and works with each person to set goals and try approaches that fit their life.
She blends client-centered listening with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing to address unhelpful patterns and build coping skills. Sessions often focus on specific problems such as sleep or eating struggles, relationship or intimacy concerns, substance use, or managing anger and low self-esteem.
Cynthia is comfortable addressing complex, overlapping issues like chronic pain, co-morbidity, or the emotional fallout of loss and life transitions. Based in Michigan, Cynthia also accepts international clients and offers multiple remote formats. She aims to make therapy accessible and to support each person toward clearer choices and more manageable days.
How Cynthia Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and making the session about your needs. The therapist follows your lead, reflects your experiences, and helps you clarify goals and choices. This approach is useful when people want a respectful, nonjudgmental place to talk through difficult feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Sessions include simple steps to test unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep or eating disruptions, and patterns that feed substance use or anger.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Cynthia will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time and invites feedback so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions offer real flexibility. Video calls let you see nonverbal cues and do exercises together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for quick support between sessions or when typing helps people organize their thoughts. These formats help fit therapy into busy lives and make ongoing work more achievable.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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