About Cynthia
Cynthia Colean uses a client-centered approach combined with practical cognitive behavioral techniques to help people manage stress and anxiety. She is a licensed clinical professional counselor - LCPC - and a licensed professional counselor - LPC - with eight years of experience working in mental health. Cynthia writes plainly, values each person's strengths, and keeps sessions focused on useful steps forward.
She helps people facing family conflict and parenting strain find clearer ways to communicate and set boundaries.
Background and approach
Cynthia also supports those coping with trauma, abuse, depression, mood disorders, and the isolation that often follows these experiences. Sessions are aimed at small, manageable changes that make daily life easier. Cynthia blends client-centered listening with CBT skills.
That means she listens first to understand a person's goals, then teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions often include goal setting, behavioral experiments, and simple strategies to reduce anxious or low mood patterns. Her style is collaborative and respectful.
Cynthia treats each person as the expert on their own story and helps them use their existing strengths to move forward. She encourages steady progress and helps people practice new habits between sessions. Clients working with Cynthia can expect straightforward conversation and actionable steps.
Her focus is on clarity, compassion, and tools that fit real life. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits their needs.
How Cynthia's Approach Works Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people name their own goals. In practice this means the therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps the client steer sessions toward the changes they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches clear skills to shift unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and post-traumatic stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Cynthia will discuss options and adapt methods based on a person's goals and preferences. Together they pick practical steps that fit daily life and adjust those steps as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, so people can pick what fits their schedule. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text lets people check in quickly or have shorter exchanges, and messaging can help practice skills between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping work focused on real-world changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Oregon, Missouri, Washington
- Languages
- English