About Cindy
Cindy Cothran is a licensed counselor who aims to make beginning therapy less intimidating. She speaks plainly and listens closely so people can feel heard from the first session. Many come to her for help with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and life changes.
Cindy brings 18 years of experience to each appointment and focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions. Her approach centers on building a safe and steady relationship.
Background and approach
She describes herself as an attachment-based therapist who adapts methods to fit each person. That means sessions often include learning new ways to handle emotions, practicing mindful awareness, and improving communication patterns. Cindy uses a mix of techniques drawn from client-centered work, dialectical behavior therapy, and EMDR when appropriate.
She keeps the work straightforward: identify what matters, try small changes, and track how they affect daily life. Humor and warmth are part of her style when they fit the situation. She has worked with a wide range of concerns over nearly two decades and tailors her approach to your goals.
Expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and progress is reviewed. Cindy aims to help people build skills for coping, steadier relationships, and healthier routines. Sessions are offered in English and are provided online in several formats.
The path through therapy is paced by your needs, with attention to moment-to-moment feelings and long-term change.
How Cindy's Approaches Translate to Online Work
Cindy often uses attachment-based work to help people feel more connected and less reactive in relationships. That approach focuses on understanding patterns in relationships and trying new ways of relating that feel safer and more dependable.She also draws from dialectical behavior therapy, which teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal communication. DBT-style skills can be practiced between sessions to manage anxiety, mood swings, or overwhelming stress.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Cindy discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needs become clearer. The plan may change over time as progress is tracked and new priorities appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which give flexibility for different situations. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging are practical for short check-ins, homework support, or when writing helps to organize thoughts.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and daily life while trying the approaches that feel most helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, California
- Languages
- English
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