About Cynthia
Cynthia Martinez is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or career changes. She speaks English and Spanish and uses a warm, interactive style to make conversations feel respectful and straightforward. Cynthia focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals they can try out in everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and aimed at building skills for coping with painful memories, managing mood shifts, and improving communication. Her background includes experience in clinical settings where she supported people through crisis intervention and care coordination. That experience informs a calm, steady approach when someone is feeling overwhelmed or facing big life transitions.
She draws on different ways of working to match each person's needs. Cynthia commonly uses methods that help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts, clarify personal values, and strengthen present-moment awareness. She will tailor the pace and plan to fit what each person wants to achieve.
The work is collaborative, with an emphasis on small, achievable changes. People who choose Cynthia can expect practical homework, clear communication, and an emphasis on building coping skills. Her aim is to support clients as they move through grief, handle relationship ups and downs, manage mood or anxiety symptoms, and regain a sense of direction after life changes.
Approach-driven online counseling and practical skills
Cynthia commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them, which helps people handle painful thoughts without getting stuck. CBT looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and teaches concrete skills to change behaviors and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.She aims to find the right approach together. In the first few conversations she will listen to goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That collaborative process lets the therapist and client adjust techniques over time so the work fits the person's life and needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be good for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity through life changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish