About Cynthia
Cynthia Fradl is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and other life challenges. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she aims to treat each person with respect and compassion.
She uses practical, talk-based work that focuses on what matters to the client. Sessions blend cognitive-behavioral and acceptance approaches with mindfulness and client-centered listening. That mix helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and build values-driven action.
Background and approach
Cynthia has worked across nonprofit programs, hospital and clinical settings, and schools. She has experience supporting people with long-term mental health concerns such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and she draws on that background when planning treatment steps. Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental.
Cynthia avoids labels and instead talks through the real problems that interfere with daily life. She tailors goals and exercises to the person in front of her rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Typical issues she helps with include relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep and eating problems, addiction concerns, career transitions, and coping after loss or trauma.
She encourages small, practical steps that people can use between sessions to build momentum toward change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, committed actions toward them. It helps when anxiety or avoidance gets in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses short experiments to test new ways of coping. That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many daily habits.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Cynthia will work together with the person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions evolve as progress is made, and techniques are adjusted based on what helps in real life.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video is good for in-depth conversation and exercises that use visual cues. Phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option for check-ins. Live chat and text allow short, focused check-ins during the week and can help people keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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