Cynthia Young
Compassionate support for life's hard moments
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cynthia
Cynthia Young is a licensed clinical social worker with 26 years of experience. She practices in Florida and brings a steady, calm presence to sessions. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck and uses plain talk to guide change.
She aims to make sessions feel open and nonjudgmental. Cynthia helps clients name what is most troubling, sort through emotions, and build small practical steps forward. She emphasizes courage and steady support as people try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Cynthia draws on several therapies to meet different needs. She uses elements of cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking. She also uses acceptance and commitment strategies to help clients clarify values and act on them.
Her work includes attention to relationship and family concerns, stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, and coping with life changes. She also supports people dealing with attachment issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and forgiveness work. Sessions are offered in English and are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Cynthia works collaboratively to find approaches that fit each person’s situation and goals. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to connect clients to her practice.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many of Cynthia's methods focus on practical change and clearer relationships. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and helps people try new thinking patterns to reduce distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice difficult feelings without fighting them and to choose actions that match their values. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can be useful when trust and closeness are difficult.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cynthia will listen to your goals and offer methods that match your needs. She collaborates with clients to adapt techniques over time and checks in about what feels helpful.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face connection from home, while phone sessions provide an easier option when video isn't possible. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily routines and to try different formats to see what works best.
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
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Cynthia
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point