Cynthia Herndon
Supportive therapist focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cynthia
Cynthia Herndon is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience. She brings a warm, interactive approach that encourages participation and clear communication. Cynthia aims to help people navigate stress, mood shifts, addiction concerns, and major life changes.
She uses straightforward conversation to build trust and figure out practical next steps. Across her career she has worked in a variety of settings including hospitals, outpatient clinics, and homeless outreach services.
Background and approach
That background has given her experience with mood disorders, substance use challenges, grief, trauma, and other complex concerns. Cynthia has particular training in cognitive behavioral methods for addressing substance use and other behaviors. Her style focuses on collaborative planning.
She invites people to set goals and to take part in shaping the plan for therapy. Sessions emphasize motivation, coping skills, and problem-solving that can be used between meetings. Cynthia also has knowledge of guardianship, advance directives, and durable power of attorney matters.
She draws on that experience when clients raise related practical or planning questions. The therapy process is paced to each person. Cynthia offers encouragement and practical strategies while adapting techniques to fit individual needs and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns in a respectful, nonjudgmental way. It helps when someone needs space to sort feelings and decide on personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches specific techniques to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and habits related to substance use. Mindfulness Therapy trains present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and support coping during stressful moments.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Adjustments are made as therapy progresses so techniques fit daily life and changing circumstances.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to keep appointments around work, caregiving, or travel and to use short check-ins or longer talks as needed. The format also lets people practice skills in real time and bring immediate concerns into session for problem solving.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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