Dr. Cynthia Agbayani
Insightful family-focused therapist
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cynthia
Dr. Cynthia Agbayani is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with a wide range of relationship and emotional issues. She works with people facing trauma, mood and anxiety concerns, parenting struggles, grief, addiction, and challenges like self-esteem, anger, or sleep and eating problems.
Her style combines directness with empathy so conversations are clear and supportive. With 15 years of experience, she uses practical, evidence-based methods in sessions.
Background and approach
She blends approaches to match each person or family's needs rather than using a single set routine. That means some sessions focus on skills like grounding and emotional regulation while others look at relationship patterns and attachment needs. Her background includes work around attachment issues, adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and family-of-origin problems.
She also addresses concerns such as dissociation, domestic violence, abandonment, divorce and separation, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Therapy sessions may include targeted exercises from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, and strategies from acceptance and commitment and attachment-based work. Parents can expect straightforward guidance on communication, behavior strategies, and coping tools to use at home.
Dr. Agbayani approaches treatment collaboratively. She helps people set clear goals and adjusts methods as needs change.
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. It is useful when worry, avoidance, or unhelpful thoughts get in the way of parenting or relationships.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current family patterns. It helps parents and caregivers see how they connect with children and change interaction patterns that cause distress.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It can help with anxiety, mood problems, sleep and eating concerns, and daily coping strategies.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the family or individual about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on how things go. That collaborative process helps decide which strategies to keep and which to change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy families. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can be easier on the go, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapeutic tools consistently while managing school, work, and caregiving schedules.
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.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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