About Cynthia
Cynthia Boyle is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience. She works with people facing stress and anxiety and with a wide range of life challenges. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel heard and find practical ways forward.
She centers sessions on the person's needs and learning style. That means listening first, then trying methods that match how the person prefers to work.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered skills alongside specific tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Cynthia has worked in addictions treatment and has long experience supporting people connected to autism and Asperger syndrome. She helps people manage co-occurring concerns like ADHD, depression, trauma, and sleep or eating difficulties.
Her background includes work with relationship issues, parenting stress, grief, career concerns, and compassion fatigue. Clients can expect clear explanations of techniques and simple practice between sessions. She also brings perspectives from couple work using the Gottman approach when relationships are a focus.
Cynthia describes her role as a partner who helps each person find what fits their life. She holds LPC credentials in Michigan and Iowa and has run a independent practice for many years. Her style is direct but empathetic, aiming to reduce overwhelm and build skills that help in everyday life.
Using therapy approaches online to manage anxiety and stress
Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and build coping skills for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating problems.Dialectical behavior therapy brings skills for managing intense emotions and improving emotional regulation. DBT work includes attention to distress tolerance, mindfulness, and building healthier interpersonal patterns for relationships and parenting stress.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cynthia will listen to your goals and preferences and then suggest techniques that fit your learning style. Together you can try methods and adjust them based on what is actually helpful in day-to-day life.
Online work can make therapy more flexible. Video calls are useful for in-depth sessions when seeing facial cues matters. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging offer brief check-ins, coaching-style support, and a way to follow up between longer sessions. These options let people balance therapy with work, caregiving, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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