About Cynthia
Cynthia (Cindi) Stewart draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered care to guide people through hard times. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, with 25 years of experience and works from Missouri. Cindi focuses on practical steps people can use right away to manage stress, anxiety, depression, mood swings, addiction concerns, grief, and major life changes.
She keeps sessions straightforward and person-focused. Conversations aim to clarify what matters most, spot unhelpful thinking and habits, and build small routines that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Skill practice and short-term goals are common parts of her work. Cindi also helps people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, caregiver fatigue, body image concerns, chronic illness, and trauma or abuse history. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues and supports people navigating divorce or blended family challenges.
Her background includes work with those facing career stress and moral or compassion fatigue. Her style balances gentle listening with practical strategies drawn from evidence-based methods like CBT and DBT. Clients can expect emotion-focused conversation alongside tools for managing thoughts and behavior.
The aim is clearer values, better emotion management, and more dependable coping habits. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session based on availability.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions teach ways to identify unhelpful thinking, test assumptions, and build new habits that reduce anxiety and depression symptoms.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy emphasizes clarifying personal values and taking small committed actions toward them. It helps people tolerate difficult emotions while still moving toward what matters in life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and life context and then tailor a mix of methods to fit the client's needs. Clients and the therapist check in over time to adjust strategies and practice skills that work best for daily life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer written check-ins, want brief coaching between sessions, or need a low-friction way to stay consistent with skill practice.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey
- Languages
- English