About Cynthia
Dr. Cynthia Agbayani helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and struggles with mood or addictions. She also supports concerns like ADHD, self-esteem, anger, sleeping and eating problems, and career stress.
She practices in Virginia and communicates in English. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - with 15 years of experience. Her style is direct yet warm.
She listens closely and then offers clear options people can try between sessions.
Background and approach
She works together with each person to set goals that fit their life. Her way of working draws on several approaches to match what each person needs. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice and move toward what matters to them.
She also uses attachment-focused work to address early relationship wounds that still cause problems. Cognitive-behavioral tools are part of the plan when habits and thinking patterns need to change. Sessions are practical and straightforward.
Expect conversations about what you want to change, small experiments to try at home, and skill-building for handling stress or intense emotions. She helps parents with communication and blended family issues and supports people coping with loss, divorce, or caregiver strain. People who choose her often want both compassion and clear direction.
Her approach adapts as progress is made, with an emphasis on realistic steps and steady support over time.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on repairing patterns from early relationships that affect trust and closeness now. This approach can help with intimacy-related issues, family conflict, and attachment wounds from adoption or separation.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person's goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Sessions often combine skills practice, reflection on patterns, and small experiments to try between meetings.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be easier when video isn't possible or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit brief updates, coaching, or steady support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still working with a licensed professional.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English