About Cynthia
Cynthia Hooyman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. She aims to make first steps feel less awkward and more manageable. Cynthia creates a welcoming atmosphere where people can be honest about what they are feeling without fear of judgment.
She uses a trauma-informed approach that is warm and grounded. Cynthia meets people where they are and lets trust grow at its own pace.
How Cynthia works
She does not push someone to discuss painful memories before they're ready, but she also encourages gentle steps toward change. In sessions Cynthia helps clients build coping skills and greater self-understanding. That work often includes addressing attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, trouble with communication, and control issues.
Practical tools and small experiments are used to try out new ways of handling difficult situations. Cynthia also supports people dealing with forgiveness, isolation and loneliness, questions of life purpose, post-traumatic stress, and workplace difficulties. Her focus is on useful strategies that fit everyday life.
She emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. With three years of experience in the mental health field, Cynthia draws on that background to guide each person's pace. She practices in Wisconsin and offers sessions in English.
If someone prefers to begin online, she provides multiple formats to match individual needs.
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.
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Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Evidence-based trauma-informed care focuses on safety, pacing, and understanding how past hurts affect present behavior. This approach helps people make sense of difficult memories and reduce intense reactions by building skills for grounding, self-soothing, and emotional regulation.Skills-based coping work emphasizes practical tools that can be used between sessions. It may include breathing and grounding techniques, communication practice, and small behavioral experiments to test new ways of responding to stress and workplace challenges. These techniques are useful for anxiety, grief, and feeling stuck in life transitions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s pace and comfort level and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try different formats to see what works best.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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