About Cynthia
Cynthia Lowe is a licensed social worker who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and related life challenges. She brings 25 years of experience to conversations that aim to be calm, practical, and respectful. Cynthia uses straightforward language and a warm, interactive style to help people talk through their concerns and make steady changes.
Her sessions focus on individual needs rather than labels. She listens carefully, then works with each person to build a plan that fits their life.
Background and approach
Sessions may include techniques to notice unhelpful thoughts, try new behaviors, and practice mindfulness skills that reduce reactivity. Cynthia blends several approaches depending on what a person needs. That can include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and accept difficult feelings, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to test and change thinking patterns, and client-centered methods that keep the person’s views central.
Motivational Interviewing also appears when people want help finding reasons to change. She has clinical licenses as an LISW and an LCSW and practices in Arizona. Across her career she has worked with people facing trauma, parenting strain, addiction, chronic illness, career stress, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, and ADHD among other issues.
Sessions are offered in English. Cynthia aims to make the work collaborative and realistic. She focuses on small, achievable steps and practical coping skills.
If someone is ready to start, she asks them to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a time to begin.
How Cynthia’s Methods Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when tough feelings appear. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing thinking patterns and trying new behaviors that reduce distress and improve functioning. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the person’s perspective central, offering a respectful space to be heard and to develop insight.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Cynthia will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan over time based on what works. That means the approach can shift between skills practice, values work, and reflective conversation as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full sessions where seeing facial expressions helps. Phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or a written way to process thoughts. These options make scheduling easier and let people choose what fits their day-to-day life.
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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
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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