About Cynthia
Dr. Cynthia Agbayani is an LPC (licensed professional counselor) based in Virginia who helps people facing a wide range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, trauma, and parenting stress. She combines a straightforward style with empathy to make conversations clear and practical.
She focuses on helping clients manage emotions, improve relationships, and build daily routines that feel doable. With 15 years of experience, she draws on several approaches to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions center on the client’s goals and life context, and she works collaboratively to create steps that fit into real life. Her tone is direct but warm, aiming to keep sessions focused and useful. Dr.
Agbayani uses methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered techniques. She finds these helpful for mood disorders, trauma-related problems, family stress, and difficulties with attention and self-regulation. Interventions are explained simply and practiced between sessions.
People who reach out can expect practical tools, communication coaching, and attention to patterns that affect daily functioning. She also addresses issues tied to family history, adoption, caregiving stress, and relationship patterns. The work often includes building routines, learning skills for emotion regulation, and improving communication.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients. Dr. Agbayani offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical experiments to change patterns, which is useful for mood, anxiety, and attention-related challenges. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns from early life and helps people change how they relate to others, which can ease intimacy and family stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences rather than using a single fixed model. That collaborative process includes trying strategies, checking how they feel, and adjusting the plan together.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful, phone sessions work for lower bandwidth or when being on camera is not desired, and live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, skill practice, or flexible communication during the week. These options aim to increase access and convenience while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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