About Cynthia
Cynthia Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 26 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life transitions. She holds LCSW licenses in Florida and California and focuses on practical, down-to-earth support. Cynthia creates a calm space where people can talk about difficult feelings without judgment.
Her approach is straightforward. She listens first, then helps people identify small steps they can try between sessions. Cynthia draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and skills from dialectical behavior work to manage upsetting thoughts and strong emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and build a meaningful daily routine. Cynthia has a long history supporting people with relationship and family concerns, addiction and codependency issues, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also helps with ADHD, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and care during aging and life stage shifts.
Practical problem solving and improved communication are common focuses in her work. People meet her to work through anger, abandonment wounds, attachment questions, or career stress. She pays attention to family of origin patterns and how those patterns affect current choices.
Sessions aim to boost coping skills and to reduce the small daily burdens that add up. Cynthia offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Her style is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness to change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that adapt to your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck on them and then take action toward what matters. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and living through big changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cynthia will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level. She often blends approaches so sessions match the problem at hand and the pace the person wants to move at.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video is useful for longer sessions and for building rapport through face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when someone has limited bandwidth or needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can suit people who prefer texting to talk through immediate concerns or to keep a running thread of progress over time.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
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