About Cynthia
Cynthia Solomon is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of professional experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps that calm overwhelming feelings and restore day-to-day functioning. Cynthia aims to make conversations direct and understandable for worried readers seeking relief.
She has worked with people coping with addictions, grief and loss, low motivation, and struggles with self-esteem and confidence. Her approach is straightforward: listen first, then build small, manageable goals together.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what can change now and what skills help between meetings. Cynthia creates a nonjudgmental space where clients can speak openly about hard emotions. She prioritizes clarity and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Expect conversations about patterns, concrete coping techniques, and ways to rebuild confidence. Over her career she has supported people dealing with feelings of abandonment, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation and loneliness, and questions about life purpose. She also addresses mood disorders, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety and phobia, women’s issues, and workplace difficulties.
Cynthia works with each person to set realistic steps toward a more fulfilling life. She encourages people to try strategies between sessions and to review what helps. The goal is to leave sessions with useful tools and a clearer plan for moving forward.
Approaches that meet you where you are online
Cynthia commonly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change and emotional regulation. She helps people learn skills that reduce anxiety and manage stress, such as step-by-step breathing and grounding methods that interrupt panic and calm the body. These techniques are short, teachable, and useful between sessions.She also emphasizes behavioral strategies that break unhelpful cycles, like planning small daily activities, tracking mood patterns, and practicing new responses to triggers. These approaches help with addictions, low motivation, and mood challenges by turning insight into action.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cynthia will collaboratively explore what feels most helpful given a person’s goals and preferences. Together they test methods, notice what changes, and adjust the plan to keep progress steady and manageable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to touch base between meetings and to get support when quick coping ideas are needed. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while staying focused on clear, actionable steps.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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