About Cindy
Cindy Reyes, LCSW, offers calm, practical help for people coping with anxiety and stress. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on steady, down-to-earth support that makes problems feel more manageable. Her style is straightforward and caring, aimed at people who want clear tools and relief from overwhelm.
Cindy brings 11 years of experience working in community mental health settings. She has helped people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people managing chronic illness, caregiver stress, and difficult life changes like separation and loss. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and tailors sessions to each person’s needs. That can mean building practical coping skills, practicing stress-reduction strategies, or using trauma-informed ways to make hard memories less disruptive.
Sessions are collaborative and focused on small steps that add up. Cindy also has experience with concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, codependency, body image, and communication problems. She aims to help people recognize patterns that increase distress and replace them with actions that feel healthier and more effective.
Her approach emphasizes strengths and resilience. Together with a client she sets realistic goals and practices new skills between sessions. The work is paced to what the person can manage, with attention to real-life demands and cultural context.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Many clients benefit from approaches that teach concrete skills for anxiety and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life, then practicing new behaviors that reduce worry. That method can help with anxiety, low mood, and stress-related problems.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better communication. It can be useful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts make daily life harder. Mindfulness-based techniques are also used to help people notice their reactions and slow down before reacting impulsively.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily life to pick methods that fit. Sessions adapt over time so techniques that aren’t helping are swapped for others until a good fit is found.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when lower bandwidth or not being on camera is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between appointments or fit short sessions into a workday. These options let clients keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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