About Cynthia
Cynthia Hughes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee with 34 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and work through trauma and abuse. Cynthia aims to make starting therapy feel less overwhelming for anyone taking that first step.
She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through difficult feelings. Sessions center on practical steps and real conversation rather than jargon.
Background and approach
Cynthia listens first, then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals. Her practice also addresses relationship concerns, depression, grief, anger, and challenges related to ADHD. She supports people dealing with issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and blended family adjustments.
Cynthia brings long experience to complex, overlapping problems where multiple struggles occur at once. People who come for help will find straightforward guidance and steady support. She focuses on what matters most to the client and prioritizes skills that can be used between sessions.
The goal is steady progress toward a more manageable daily life. For those coping with domestic violence, divorce, or communication struggles, Cynthia offers a steady listening presence and practical plans. Her approach is patient and task-oriented, with room for emotional healing alongside behavioral change.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Cynthia uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional healing. One common approach she uses involves skill-building to manage anxiety and stress, teaching breathing, grounding, and coping tools that can reduce panic and worry in daily life. Another approach centers on processing trauma and abuse at a manageable pace, helping people make sense of difficult memories and reduce their emotional impact.Finding the right way to work together is part of therapy. Cynthia treats selecting an approach as a collaborative process. She will discuss your goals, try methods that match your needs, and adjust plans as you make progress or as priorities shift.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you have a fuller conversation with visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, brief skills practice, or staying connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum when life gets hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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