"Cyndi" Cynthia Oberdan
Compassionate, practical support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cyndi
Cynthia Oberdan introduces herself with a steady belief in the courage it takes to seek help. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - with nine years of practice listed, based in Florida. Cynthia focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside issues such as anxiety, depression, stress, ADHD, addictions, and relationship difficulties.
Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at people who want practical change and clearer next steps.
Background and approach
Before earning her master of social work degree Cynthia worked across many service settings. She began supporting people with developmental and intellectual disabilities and helped run family respite and community habilitation programs. That work emphasized day-to-day skills, coping, and social connection for teens through older adults.
She later moved into child welfare and worked as a child protective investigator, focusing on safety and family problem solving. Cynthia has also worked as a medical social worker in hospitals, outpatient clinics, and emergency departments providing crisis intervention, case management, and counseling for trauma, grief, and adjustment concerns. Cynthia describes an adaptable, client-centered way of working.
She blends several approaches to fit the person in front of her, drawing on cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, the Gottman Method, and motivational interviewing when useful. In sessions she aims to clarify priorities and teach concrete skills. Parents and family members who want clear strategies for communication, coping, or behavior changes may find this practical focus helpful.
She conducts work in English and practices in Florida.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against real life. It teaches simple exercises and behavior changes that help with anxiety, depression, stress, and problem-solving around parenting and daily routines.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It is useful when strong emotions or repeated conflicts get in the way of family relationships or personal functioning.
Cynthia also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and collaboration to clarify what matters most to the client. That approach helps build trust and shape treatment around personal goals rather than a set formula.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cynthia will discuss options, try techniques, and adapt methods based on each persons goals, needs, and preferences. The process is cooperative and the approach can shift as issues change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for parents and busy adults. Video calls let people meet face to face from home, phone sessions remove travel needs, and live chat or text messaging provide short, focused check-ins or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit skill practice and problem solving into an already full schedule.
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
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Maine
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Cyndi
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