About Cynthia
Cynthia Lowe is a licensed social worker with 25 years in mental health care. She aims to help people who are anxious, dealing with trauma, or struggling with depression and life changes. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, and she focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions.
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, grief, bipolar disorder, addiction, ADHD, and relationship and intimacy-related issues. Cynthia also supports people facing caregiver strain, chronic illness, body image worries, and challenges tied to aging.
Background and approach
She listens for each person’s goals before shaping an approach together. Her clinical work draws on methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered listening, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. Sessions focus on learning coping skills, noticing patterns, and setting small, achievable goals.
Cynthia adapts conversations and tools to match what feels useful for each person. Cynthia holds both LISW and LCSW credentials and practices in Arizona. She has experience helping people who have experienced emotional, physical, or sexual trauma and supports work around parenting, career stress, and compulsive behaviors.
Her style is warm, interactive, and nonjudgmental. She encourages taking small steps toward change and offers support as clients try new strategies. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect a person with her, and then sessions are scheduled based on what works for the client.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and trying small experiments to change them, which often suits problems like depression, anxiety, and some trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different tools together to see what helps. Over time methods can be mixed and adjusted so sessions match what feels most useful for you.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let you work through exercises face to face without travel, while phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins or coaching-style support easier between longer appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep progress moving forward.
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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
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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