About Cynthia
Cynthia Montcalm is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed professional counselor who has practiced for 24 years in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and major life changes. Cynthia uses straightforward talk and practical tools so clients can start feeling more capable sooner.
Her work centers on clear goals and steady progress. She draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Client-Centered principles to make sessions feel respectful and collaborative. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Cynthia helps people build coping skills for sleep, eating, anger, and caregiver stress.
She also supports those working through grief, trauma, relationship conflict, and career strain. With many years of practice, she adapts methods to fit each person. She pays attention to the immediate problem and the bigger patterns that keep it coming back.
That approach helps people get relief and work toward lasting change. Cynthia works with adults on a range of personal and family-related issues. She aims to create a space where people can talk honestly, learn concrete strategies, and test new ways of reacting.
Her style is steady, pragmatic, and warm, focused on real steps people can use between sessions.
How Cynthia’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy centers sessions on the person’s experience, with the therapist listening and responding to what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard while they talk through anxiety, grief, or relationship stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating difficulties.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Cynthia will work together with each person to see which methods match their goals and daily life. That might mean practicing CBT tools for a few weeks, adding DBT skills for strong emotions, or keeping sessions open and reflective when people need that space.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or work around bandwidth limits. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, and a way to stay connected when a full session isn’t possible. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while using the approaches that best fit each person’s needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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