Cynthia Montcalm
Compassionate guidance for family and life transitions
- Credentials
- LMFT, LPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cynthia
Cynthia Montcalm is a licensed therapist practicing in Louisiana. She holds licenses as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Licensed Professional Counselor. With 24 years of experience, she works with adults on stress, anxiety, mood concerns, relationship and family problems, parenting difficulties, grief, trauma, and related issues.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps clients can use between meetings. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and coping skills. Cynthia values the strengths people bring and their support systems. She listens closely and helps people identify realistic next steps.
Therapy often includes problem-solving, new communication skills, and practice for real-life situations. Over two decades of practice have included work with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar, attention challenges, and complicated family dynamics. She also addresses caregiver stress, aging and geriatric concerns, blended family issues, and co-occurring problems.
Sessions are offered in English and use a mix of methods chosen to match each person’s goals. The focus is on practical change, clearer communication, and building coping tools that fit daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, respect, and helping the client find their own solutions; it is useful when someone needs a collaborative, supportive space to sort feelings and choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and gives practical tools to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change patterns that get in the way. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, which can be helpful for people who struggle with emotional reactivity or chronic stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling family, work, or care responsibilities. Video and phone sessions allow full conversations when meeting in person is hard. Live chat and text-based messaging give brief check-ins or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy 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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
Next step
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