About Cynthia
Cynthia Gladyness is a licensed social worker with 26 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship strain, and ADHD. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
Clients find that Cynthia offers steady support during big life changes. She listens without judgment and works with each person's goals. Sessions focus on clearer communication, managing emotions, and improving daily routines that affect sleep and focus.
Background and approach
Her approach blends methods that help people notice thoughts and take small, useful actions. She draws on acceptance-based skills, cognitive tools to shift unhelpful patterns, and emotion-focused work to strengthen important relationships. Motivational techniques are used when someone wants help building new habits.
Cynthia also assists people wrestling with parenting stress, caregiving and end-of-life issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and the effects of trauma and loss. She pays attention to how life events shape coping and self-worth, and she helps clients set realistic, step-by-step goals. Sessions aim to be collaborative and practical.
Cynthia explains options, checks what is working, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Many clients appreciate that she keeps tools simple and relevant to everyday life. She practices in Michigan and conducts therapy in English.
Cynthia is open to working with people from other regions and uses a variety of online formats to fit different needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on values-guided actions. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and managing ongoing challenges like ADHD. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that cause distress. It is often used for anxiety, mood, sleep, and habit change.Choosing the right method is a team process. Cynthia works with each person to match approaches to their goals and preferences. She explains options, tries techniques in session, and adjusts the plan based on what helps most over time.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when a visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, homework prompts, and ongoing encouragement between appointments. These options offer flexibility so therapy can be practical and consistent for each person's life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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