About Cynthia
Cynthia Thomas is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who uses a practical, person-centered style to help people manage stress, anxiety, and life changes. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused so clients can talk through immediate concerns and build useful skills. Cynthia works online and with phone or text options to fit different schedules and needs.
With eleven years of experience, she draws on several approaches to match each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral changes. Mindfulness techniques help people notice sensations and emotions without judgment, which can be useful with anxiety and grief. Her background also includes Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy to support change and set practical goals.
Cynthia helps people address relationship issues, parenting stresses, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, eating and body image struggles, and identity issues related to LGBT topics. She also works with people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, and attachment or abandonment concerns. Sessions can address intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem, career strain, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and dissociation in plain, attainable steps.
She aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients set the pace and priorities. Cynthia explains techniques clearly and helps clients try them between sessions. People who choose her can expect collaborative work toward realistic goals.
She encourages small, steady changes and checks progress along the way. Cynthia practices from Oklahoma and conducts work in English for both local and international clients.
Practical approaches for online work
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems in place and then tests small, doable changes. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues.Mindfulness Therapy trains simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It can be helpful for managing anxiety, grief, and emotional overwhelm.
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client’s lead so goals come from what matters most to the person. This approach supports building trust and pacing change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and past experience, then recommend approaches to try together. Plans are adjusted as progress is tracked and new needs appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions work well for deeper conversations and interactive exercises. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to try methods that fit personal routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- 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
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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