Cynthia Carlton-Jarmon, LMFT

Cynthia Carlton-Jarmon is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with four decades of professional experience. She served in the United States Army before retiring, bringing long-standing experience supporting service members and their families to her civilian practice. Licensed to practice in both Hawaii and North Carolina, she combines clinical skill with a grounded, compassionate presence.

Cynthia works with individuals, adolescents, couples, and families across a broad range of concerns. She offers premarital counseling, support for marriage and post-marital relationships, and faith-informed guidance for coping with grief and recovering from loss. Her clinical work also addresses stress, anxiety, depression, anger management, family conflict, parenting challenges, issues of identity, and many other life transitions.

As a solution-focused practitioner, Cynthia emphasizes practical strategies that help clients move toward their goals while honoring their strengths and values. Her therapeutic toolkit includes cognitive behavioral therapy - a method that helps people identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns - as well as solution-focused and narrative approaches tailored to each person or family's needs. She strives to create a nonjudgmental, open environment where thoughts and feelings can be explored. Believing that each person is the expert of their own life story, Cynthia collaborates with clients to enhance resilience, clarify priorities, and build a more fulfilling path forward.

Evidence-Based Approaches Delivered Through Online Care

CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress and to improve daily functioning. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on building practical strategies and short-term goals so people can begin making measurable changes in relationships and life challenges sooner rather than later. Narrative therapy invites clients to explore the stories they tell about themselves and to rewrite those narratives in ways that support healing, self-worth, and clearer life direction.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Cynthia works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they assess progress and adapt strategies so therapy stays aligned with what matters most to the client.

Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility for people with busy schedules, mobility limitations, or geographic distance from a clinician. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care, fit therapy into daily life, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable while working with a licensed professional.