About Cynthia
Cynthia Prince is a licensed clinical social worker with 38 years of experience who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She works with many concerns including depression, addiction, parenting strain, ADHD, and life changes. Cynthia offers a calm presence, practical steps, and a straightforward way of working.
She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice patterns that keep problems going and try different responses.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current connections. Sessions are conversational and often include simple skill practice to manage intense feelings and improve day-to-day functioning. Cynthia spent decades in public behavioral health settings including prisons, residential programs, emergency evaluations, and outpatient care.
Much of her work involved crisis assessment and supporting people through major life stressors. That background shapes a pragmatic, no-nonsense style in session. She likes to keep therapy humane and down to earth.
Humor is part of her approach, and she sometimes mentions a virtual emotional support pet named Major to lighten the mood. Her tone is respectful and direct while staying warm and compassionate. People who reach out can expect focused conversations about clear goals.
Cynthia helps clients build coping skills, address attachment and abandonment concerns, and work on relationships and self-worth. Her practice aims to make therapy useful and manageable for everyday life.
Approach and online options for therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then taking actions that align with personal values; it can help with anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical experiments and skills to change patterns that contribute to depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship experiences shape current bonds and communication, helping people address attachment and abandonment concerns that affect intimacy and parenting.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cynthia will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. Sessions begin with simple goals and are adjusted as progress and priorities become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or health issues. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when written reflection feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit regular support into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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