Cynthia Marcolina
Calm, practical counseling for family issues
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cynthia
Cynthia Marcolina is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues. She brings 35 years of experience and a calm, collaborative manner to sessions. Cynthia aims to help people reduce anxiety, improve self-esteem, and build better ways of coping during hard times.
Her style is gentle and practical. She listens first, then works together with clients to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations often include short exercises, suggested reading, and creative activities that support healing outside of sessions. Cynthia blends several therapeutic methods to meet each person where they are. She draws on client-centered work to follow a person's priorities, uses cognitive-behavioral tools to address unhelpful thinking, and brings in mindfulness and existential perspectives to strengthen presence and meaning.
Motivational interviewing is used when people want help with change and decision-making. Sessions may include discussion, written exercises, and creative tasks like drawing to help process feelings. She encourages practical steps - small shifts in thinking or routine - that make daily life feel more manageable.
Cynthia also helps people explore life purpose, relationship patterns, and family of origin issues. People who meet with her can expect a steady, respectful presence and straightforward suggestions to try between appointments. Her approach is collaborative and aimed at helping each person find ways to cope that fit their life and values.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more realistic ones. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and habits that keep people stuck. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the person's priorities so sessions reflect what matters most to them. This approach supports confidence and clearer self-understanding.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds so the process stays collaborative and tailored to the individual's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options allow people to meet from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and continue work between appointments with written or chat check-ins. For many, the range of formats makes it easier to maintain momentum and practice new skills in daily life.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
Next step
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