About Cynthia
Cynthia "Cindi" Christiansen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 21 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and find steadier footing during life changes. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood from the start.
Cindi believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the therapy room. She helps clients name problems and try practical steps to feel better.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small, usable changes that fit into daily life. In work with relationship concerns and communication problems, she helps people clarify needs and practice clearer ways of talking with others. When clients face divorce or separation, she offers steady guidance to sort next steps and manage strong emotions.
She also supports people working on self-love and rebuilding confidence. Her approach to depression and addiction centers on understanding what keeps someone stuck and then testing different strategies to change those patterns. Cindi uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to structure sessions so progress is measurable and realistic.
Many clients appreciate that she treats therapy as a collaboration. She listens for what’s already working, adjusts plans when needed, and focuses on attainable goals. The aim is to help people regain more calm, clearer thinking, and better day-to-day coping.
Approaches that help online and in everyday life
Many of the techniques used are practical, evidence-based methods that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors. One approach helps people notice unhelpful thought patterns and then test more balanced ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method is useful for stress, anxiety, and depression.Another common approach targets behaviors that keep problems going. It involves identifying small actions to try between sessions and tracking results. This approach is helpful for addictions, coping with life changes, and improving daily routines.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is working and what is not.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages for this work. Video calls let people talk face to face when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging allow for ongoing support between sessions and help people share thoughts when typing feels most convenient.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- California, Utah
- Languages
- English
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