About Cindy
Cindy McGraw is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, and self-esteem. She helps people untangle painful memories, cope with life changes, and manage overwhelming feelings. Cindy aims to make clients feel less alone while building practical skills they can use day to day.
Cindy approaches therapy in a straightforward, collaborative way. She listens first, then helps people notice patterns in thinking and behavior that keep problems going.
Background and approach
From there she works with each person to try small, manageable changes that add up over time. Her work includes attention to grief, parenting strain, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, body image, and family of origin concerns.
Cindy addresses both recent stressors and older wounds such as post-traumatic stress. Cindy draws on methods like cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thoughts and emotionally focused approaches to strengthen relationships. She includes skills from dialectical behavior approaches when emotions feel intense and attachment-based ideas when relationships are central.
With 15 years of clinical experience, Cindy blends practical coaching with deeper therapy work. Sessions aim to be clear, goal-minded, and paced to each person’s readiness. She speaks English and practices in Michigan as an LPC.
People who choose her often want help making real-life changes, reducing anxiety, and improving how they connect with others. Her focus is on steady progress and on making therapy useful for everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many sessions draw on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and then teaches skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving concrete tools to test and change thoughts and behaviors.Emotionally-Focused Therapy is also part of her work and focuses on how emotions shape relationships. This approach helps people name needs, improve connection, and repair patterns that leave them feeling isolated or misunderstood.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients can expect a mix of skill practice, conversation about patterns, and focused work on relationships or trauma when appropriate.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for regular sessions and face-to-face conversations. Phone sessions can be a good shorter check-in or an option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief coaching, skill reminders, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy days and different life rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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