About Cynthia
Cynthia Yzaguirre is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 22 years of experience. She uses a person-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, and changes in life circumstances. Cynthia talks plainly and focuses on practical steps clients can use right away.
She blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive and skills-based methods. That means sessions often begin by listening closely to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
From there she helps set realistic goals and builds practical strategies for coping, decision-making, and emotion management. Cynthia has long experience working with grief, parenting strain, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, and issues around intimacy and communication. She also supports people dealing with sleep and eating problems, career transitions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Her background includes work as a counselor and educator, so she brings teaching and coaching skills into sessions. Sessions can include mindfulness exercises, CBT-style thought work, and DBT skill practice when emotion regulation or impulsivity are a concern. She aims to give tools people can use between sessions to notice patterns and try new responses in daily life.
Cynthia invites honest conversation without judgment and partners with clients to find approaches that fit their goals. She frames therapy as a collaborative process that moves at a practical pace. Clients who want clear strategies, steady support, and real-world skills often find this style helpful.
How Cynthia’s Approaches Work Online
Cynthia combines Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) tools to address anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, and emotion regulation. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful, collaborative relationship so clients feel heard and understood. CBT helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical experiments to change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. DBT provides concrete skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive actions, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Cynthia collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean starting with CBT thought work, adding mindfulness exercises, and bringing in DBT skills when emotional regulation or impulsivity is present. She adjusts the plan as progress unfolds so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people balancing work, parenting, or travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can fit a tight schedule or reduce bandwidth needs. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy tools in real life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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