About Cynthia
Dr. Cynthia Agbayani is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Virginia who helps people navigate anxiety, stress, trauma, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and mood concerns. She uses straightforward, respectful conversation to help clients name what feels hard and find achievable next steps.
Her style is direct but warm, aimed at practical change rather than jargon. With 15 years as an LPC, she blends several approaches to tailor sessions to each person.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address anxious thoughts and unhelpful behavior patterns. Attachment-based ideas guide work on close relationships and family patterns. Sessions focus on clear goals and doable skills.
Clients practice strategies for managing intense feelings, improving communication, and handling setbacks. Conversations often include steps to shift behavior, experiments between sessions, and reflection on values and priorities. Dr.
Agbayani aims to be collaborative. She helps people build a plan that fits their situation and adjusts it as progress is made. The emphasis is on steady change rather than quick fixes.
She offers therapy in English and is available to international clients. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. People who want a practical, relationship-aware approach to anxiety and life stress often seek her out.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them, then focus on actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with worry, low mood, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they shape a plan and try strategies, then adjust based on what helps most. This collaborative process makes it easier to pick methods that fit daily life and long-term aims.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people see facial cues and practice connection work, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can support brief check-ins or skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, travel, caregiving, or other routines while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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