About Cynthia
Cynthia Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She brings 15 years of professional counseling experience to her work and aims to make first steps easier for worried clients. Cynthia keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
She listens first, then helps clients name the problems that matter most. Together they develop small, doable steps to reduce distress and build coping skills.
Background and approach
She uses clear language and a calm, respectful approach. Her background includes long experience in community mental health, case management, and independent practice. That range shaped a focus on real-life problems like caregiving strain, aging parents, career shifts, and end-of-life concerns.
She also supports people facing trauma, sexual identity questions, and intimate relationship issues. In sessions Cynthia draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a nonjudgmental space. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help with anxious thinking and Emotionally-Focused Therapy techniques for relationship patterns.
Mindfulness and existential perspectives are woven in when clients want meaning-focused work. Cynthia works with each person at their own pace and tailors methods to what feels useful. Her goal is to help clients build tools that fit daily life and to support them through transitions and losses.
How Cynthia’s Approaches Work Online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps by identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. Online CBT sessions often focus on short exercises, thought records, and real-life experiments that clients practice between meetings.Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and building trust. In remote work this means the therapist provides consistent, empathic attention so clients can talk through worries and feel understood, then choose the pace and topics that matter most.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cynthia will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan as needed so the work fits the person rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions offer a few practical benefits. Video calls give face-to-face interaction when convenient, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a short break, and live chat or text messaging allow frequent check-ins and brief coaching between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or mobility needs.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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