About Cyndi
Cynthia Oberdan is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of practice in mental health and social services. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening first and making practical plans. She aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone worried about anxiety, stress, or life transitions.
She brings experience from hospitals, emergency departments, and outpatient clinics where she provided crisis intervention and case management.
Background and approach
That background shaped her ability to work calmly with urgent concerns and to help people sort immediate needs from longer-term goals. She has also supported people with developmental and intellectual disabilities in programs focused on life skills and social connection. Cyndi uses a mix of approaches to match each person's goals.
She applies client-centered techniques to let people lead the conversation. She uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help identify unhelpful thoughts and build different responses. Her work also draws on dialectical behavior ideas and mindfulness to teach emotion regulation and present-moment coping.
She can incorporate relationship-focused tools from the Gottman Method when communication and intimacy are central concerns. Sessions aim to be practical, with tools that can be used between appointments. People who choose her often want straightforward support for anxiety, parenting challenges, career decisions, addiction concerns, trauma recovery, or family stress.
She works in English and practices in Florida as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW).
Approaches that guide online sessions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is about spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways to respond. It is often used for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and low mood by teaching practical skills to change thoughts and behaviors.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and following the client’s pace. The therapist helps people name their goals and supports them as they try new coping strategies or make life changes.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy brings skills for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. It offers concrete tools for distress tolerance and better communication when feelings feel overwhelming.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, and may combine techniques as those goals evolve.
Online therapy makes these methods easier to use around a busy life. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that helps. Phone sessions are an option when bandwidth or comfort on camera matters. Live chat and text messaging work well for short check-ins, reminders, or coaching between sessions. These options provide flexibility for someone balancing work, family, or school while getting help.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English
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