About Cynthia
Cynthia Barrett is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, LICSW, and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, with 25 years of counseling experience. She offers a warm, respectful approach and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Cynthia aims to meet clients where they are and help them move toward clearer goals.
She uses client-centered methods that keep the person's needs central. Cynthia also relies on cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
How Cynthia works
Mindfulness and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are part of her toolkit when emotion regulation and stress management are priorities. Cynthia has worked in many settings over her career and has supported people coping with depression, anxiety, stress, grief, trauma, and addiction. She also helps with relationship struggles, parenting concerns, sleep problems, career questions, and caregiving strain.
Additional areas she addresses include abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, and challenges related to aging or cancer. Her style is inviting and nonjudgmental. Sessions focus on clear goals, practical skills, and steps clients can try between meetings.
She uses motivational interviewing when people want help finding the next right move. Cynthia is based in Alabama and works with English-speaking clients, including international clients. She offers a range of remote session formats so people can choose what fits their life, and she helps people create a plan that fits their situation.
Cynthia lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Cynthia works with
The areas below are the ones Cynthia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LICSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Cynthia draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online sessions. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people set goals that matter to them. This approach is useful when someone needs support sorting priorities, values, or relationship decisions. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior and offers clear exercises and experiments to try between sessions. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness when those tools are helpful. The choice of approach is collaborative; Cynthia works with each person to figure out which methods match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adjusts pace and techniques as progress unfolds so treatment fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy here is built around practical accessibility. People can meet by video calls when they want face-to-face interaction, use phone sessions when bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed, or choose live chat and text-based messaging for quick touchpoints and ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping the focus on skills, homework, and steady progress.
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