About Cynthia
Cynthia Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than two decades of experience. She practices in Florida and supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She aims to create a calm, accepting space where someone can speak honestly and feel heard.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She encourages practical steps that fit daily life. Sessions often include learning tools to manage strong emotions, reduce worry, and handle setbacks without getting overwhelmed.
How Cynthia works
Cynthia draws on several approaches to tailor care. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot thought patterns that make things harder. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to clarify values and build small, meaningful changes.
Attachment-focused work helps people understand how early relationships shape current reactions. Dialectical behavior tools bring calm, distress tolerance, and better emotion regulation. Client-centered principles keep conversations grounded in the client’s goals and pace.
Her additional focus areas include caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, adoption and foster care issues, codependency, and forgiveness work. She also supports people dealing with addiction, anger, career concerns, and family of origin problems. Cynthia brings 26 years of experience to each session and works to make change feel possible and manageable.
Cynthia lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
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.
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where someone wants clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce worry and low mood. This approach is practical for stress, panic, and routine thinking patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape reactions today and helps people try new ways of relating when old habits feel stuck.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, past efforts, and what feels most useful. She tailors methods so sessions match the person’s needs and pace rather than forcing a single style.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, giving flexibility to fit appointments into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice, phone can be a simpler option if bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat can work for quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help make therapy more accessible and easier to use on a regular basis.
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