About Cynthia
Cynthia Malek is a licensed clinical social worker with 14 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She practices in New York and brings a calm, straightforward manner to sessions. Cynthia focuses on practical steps people can use between meetings to feel steadier day to day.
She blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques to address symptoms and habits that keep problems going. That combination helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is used when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. Cynthia also draws on psychodynamic and trauma-focused ideas to understand how past experiences affect current relationships and reactions. This can be useful for people dealing with attachment wounds, abandonment concerns, or patterns like codependency and control issues.
She works with addiction-related struggles and co-occurring depression as well. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational. Cynthia helps people set small goals and check progress over time.
She encourages clear communication skills for handling difficult conversations and relationship strain. Her training includes a master of social work from Syracuse University and a bachelor of science in psychology from SUNY Oswego. Cynthia holds the LCSW credential.
She offers therapy in English and provides sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How Cynthia’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following the person's lead. In online sessions this means the therapist focuses on what matters most to the client and adapts pacing and techniques to their needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it works well for anxiety and stress and is easy to practice between remote sessions. Trauma-focused therapy attends to how past events affect current reactions and uses careful, paced work to reduce the hold of traumatic memories and triggers.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Cynthia will work together with the client to identify which methods seem most useful based on goals, preferences, and what comes up in early sessions. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that can be adjusted over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy schedules or limited travel time. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when that is helpful, phone sessions use less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and practice new skills in everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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