About Cynthia
Cynthia Barrett is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, welcoming manner and focuses on practical ways to ease anxiety, stress, depression, and the pressure of life transitions. Her work emphasizes listening first and building treatment plans around each person's needs.
She uses client-centered methods so people feel respected and heard. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Cynthia has supported people facing grief, relationship strain, addiction concerns, trauma, and parenting challenges. She also helps with career questions, compassion fatigue, sleep problems, and self-esteem struggles. Her approach avoids labels and centers on individual strengths.
Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. Cynthia helps people identify small, doable steps and practices they can try between meetings. Mindfulness skills and motivational interviewing are part of her toolbox when a client wants practical skills for coping and change.
She works with adults seeking clearer direction, relief from anxiety, or better ways to manage emotions. Cynthia welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English. Beginning therapy can feel hard, and she focuses on steady support and real-world strategies to make progress.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and building a plan around each person's priorities; it helps people who want a supportive space to talk through anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and gives practical exercises to try between sessions, which works well over video or messaging. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, useful when someone needs concrete tools for distress tolerance and communication.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments happen over time so sessions stay focused on what a person wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people see and hear one another for in-depth sessions. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for quick updates, short check-ins, or when someone prefers writing to talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while using the approaches described above.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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