About Cynthia
Cynthia "Cindi" Crew is an Independently Licensed Social Worker (LISW) in Ohio with 25 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, mood problems, and trauma. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel heard and gain practical skills.
Cindi uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and trauma-informed methods to guide sessions. She helps people build coping skills for intense emotions and learn strategies to reduce overwhelming stress.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to focus on concrete tools and steady skill-building. Her approach centers on listening first. She asks what matters to each person and then tailors the work to their goals.
She believes people bring useful strengths and uses those strengths in therapy. Cindi has worked across many settings over her career and brings that practical experience into sessions. She supports people facing grief, anger, major life changes, career concerns, ADHD, and symptoms of bipolar disorder.
She also addresses isolation, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem struggles. When trauma is part of the story, she blends trauma-focused techniques with skills training to help reduce reactivity and improve daily functioning. The focus is on steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's goals. In practice this means sessions begin with the person’s priorities and the therapist supports their own problem-solving and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and coping with stressful situations.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest options. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for a face-to-face feel, phone sessions when video is not needed, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, and travel. They also allow flexibility in session length and frequency so the person and therapist can find a rhythm that works.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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