About Cynthia
Cynthia Young is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 26 years of practice. She works to build an open space where people can speak honestly about worries, stress, and life changes. Cynthia aims to support and empower each person who reaches out for help.
Her work often centers on anxiety, stress, and depression. She also helps people facing grief, addiction, anger, and struggles with self-esteem. Relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, and concerns such as ADHD and compassion fatigue are part of her caseload.
Background and approach
Cynthia uses a mix of practical approaches. She draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thinking. She also uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people clarify values and take meaningful steps.
Attachment-based and client-centered methods guide how she builds trust and focuses on each person’s experience. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Cynthia listens, reflects, and offers tools people can try between meetings.
She emphasizes small, manageable changes that fit into daily life and work routines. Florida is her primary practice location and she holds licensure in both Florida and California as an LCSW, which stands for licensed clinical social worker. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How Cynthia’s Methods Work Online
Cynthia uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change thinking patterns that fuel anxiety and stress. These skills focus on practical steps and brief exercises people can use between sessions.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take action toward what matters despite uncomfortable feelings. Attachment-based work informs how she builds trust and attends to relationship patterns that affect mood and coping.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cynthia will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they adapt methods and pace so work feels useful and realistic.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video works well for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone calls need less bandwidth and can fit a busy day. Live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier than talking. These options give flexibility so people can get help in ways that fit their schedule and comfort.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
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