Cynthia (Cindi) Stewart
Compassionate practical care for parents and families
- Credentials
- LPC, LPCC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cynthia
Cynthia (Cindi) Stewart is a licensed professional counselor with 25 years of experience. She offers a calm, straightforward style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and parenting concerns. Clients can expect clear communication and practical steps to cope with day-to-day challenges.
Cindi uses a mix of proven therapies to match each person’s needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address thoughts, feelings, and relationships.
Background and approach
The work is practical - identifying small changes that improve daily life and family routines. Her background includes long experience with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, as well as grief, trauma, and addiction issues. She also supports people dealing with medical challenges, caregiver stress, and body image concerns.
That breadth of experience helps when problems overlap or feel complicated. Cindi holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices from Missouri. She is experienced with issues affecting LGBTQ people and with transitions like divorce, blended family adjustments, and career change.
Her approach is respectful and non-judgmental, aimed at helping clients find usable strategies. Sessions focus on building skills for emotion regulation, clearer communication, and healthier daily habits. Work may include examining patterns of thinking, practicing new behaviors, and strengthening bonds with important people.
She accepts international clients and provides multiple online session formats to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and coping strategies.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs and goals, then recommend which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process and can change as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, to check in between appointments, and to access help when travel or location would otherwise get in the way. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, practice communication, and support emotional changes over time.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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