About Cynthia
Cynthia Roe is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in California with 30 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and ADHD. Cynthia also addresses issues related to trauma and abuse and offers support around LGBTQ matters and grief.
She draws from client-centered and attachment-based ways of working, so sessions begin with the client's needs and experiences. Cynthia pays attention to how relationships and past attachments affect present behavior.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Many people come for help after major life changes, during caregiving for a family member, or while coping with illness. Cynthia has a particular interest in supporting people affected by cancer and in navigating complex family and adoption-related dynamics.
She also addresses anger, codependency, communication problems, and caregiver stress. Sessions move at the client's pace and focus on clear, achievable steps. Cynthia blends mindfulness and motivational interviewing to build motivation and calm.
Conversations are respectful and straightforward, aimed at making day-to-day life easier to manage. Her work is practical and grounded in real-life concerns like parenting strain, career stress, relationship conflict, and self-esteem struggles. People who want an empathetic listener who will help them try specific strategies may find her approach helpful.
How Cynthia blends therapy approaches for online care
Cognitive behavioral therapy is about noticing thoughts and behaviors and testing new responses. It helps with anxiety, low mood, and changing habits that get in the way of daily life. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It can be useful when relationship dynamics, abandonment, or family of origin issues keep causing pain.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Cynthia will work with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and practical for day-to-day needs.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes it easier to connect from different places. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in, and messaging or live chat suits brief updates and between-session support. These options let people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or days when being on camera is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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