About Cynthia
Cynthia Wadsworth brings 30 years of clinical social work experience to her practice and holds an LCSW credential. She begins by listening closely to each person's story, treating the client as the expert in their own life while helping them identify the changes they want to make.
Background and approach
Cynthia integrates goal-setting and strength-based planning so that the work is practical and directed toward concrete improvements. Her approach is client-centered and draws on a range of therapeutic methods tailored to the concerns presented.
She has training and experience addressing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and a wide array of related issues including stress, relationship and intimacy difficulties, parenting, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Cynthia also attends to topics such as adoption and foster care, attachment issues, kink and alternative sex culture, chronic illness and disability, fertility and postpartum matters, gender dysphoria, and other nuanced areas of human experience. In sessions she emphasizes immediate relief when appropriate while also working toward longer-term goals, focusing on strengths rather than diagnostic labels.
Located in Illinois, Cynthia supports clients in shaping a clearer path forward through collaborative, solution-oriented care.
Online Approaches Grounded in Relationship and Trauma Work
Attachment-based work emphasizes how early relational experiences shape current patterns; it helps clients explore connection, trust, and intimacy to improve how they relate to others and to themselves. Client-centered therapy focuses on empathetic listening and meeting clients where they are, creating a space for people to articulate goals and build on their existing strengths. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that uses guided bilateral stimulation to process distressing memories and reduce the emotional charge tied to traumatic events.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process; the therapist will listen to the client’s story, review goals and preferences, and recommend or combine methods that best fit the presenting concerns. This partnership helps tailor a plan that might aim for short-term symptom relief or deeper, longer-term change depending on what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy with Cynthia is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing for flexible scheduling and access from different locations. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care and to use approaches like mindfulness, EMDR-informed strategies, and attachment-focused conversation in ways that fit the client’s life and availability.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Gender dysphoria
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Louisiana
- Languages
- English