About Cynthia
Cynthia Jenkins is a licensed mental health practitioner (LMHP) with 34 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and phobias. She is based in Nebraska and uses a straightforward, accepting style that centers on the person's goals. Cynthia listens first and helps plan steps that feel doable for each person.
Her background includes counseling in community centers, university settings, and services for older adults and low-income communities.
Background and approach
She has taught psychology at universities in Nebraska, Texas, and Missouri and spent more than a decade training post-graduate students on practical topics for their professional exams. She also practiced as a licensed massage therapist for over 30 years. Cynthia draws on a range of therapeutic approaches.
She uses client-centered methods to follow what feels most important to the person. She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior strategies to build emotional regulation and coping skills. Her life experience shapes her work.
Cynthia has traveled widely and values learning from different cultural and spiritual viewpoints. She describes her approach as eclectic and adapts methods to match each person's needs and preferences. Outside of clinical work she enjoys creative arts and spending time outdoors.
Those interests inform her sense of curiosity and gentle persistence when helping people move toward clearer choices and more manageable daily routines.
How Cynthia’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's priorities. In practice this means the therapist mirrors concerns, asks about goals, and helps shape a plan based on what the person says is most important. This approach fits issues like grief, life transitions, and feelings of emptiness where finding personal meaning matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more workable patterns. It is often used for anxiety, mood difficulties, phobias, and sleep problems because it gives concrete tools to practice between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening communication when relationships feel strained.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk about what methods might help and try things that align with the client's goals and preferences. Adjustments happen over time based on what is working and what feels right for the person.
Online therapy with Cynthia uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone work is useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes or updates between sessions and can fit into busy days. These options make it easier to maintain consistent contact and practice new skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English
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