Cynthia Mickel, LPC

Cynthia Mickel is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with two decades of direct clinical experience supporting people through some of life’s most difficult moments. She has extensive work in trauma recovery and substance use treatment, having served as a clinical supervisor in a residential substance abuse program and now serving as a clinical director at her current agency. Her practice emphasizes a client-centered stance - beginning where each person is and collaboratively shaping treatment to meet their priorities and goals.

Cynthia is known for a relaxed, approachable manner that helps clients feel comfortable sharing hard topics. She has worked with adolescents and adults across a range of mental health concerns including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, PTSD, self-harming behaviors, and addiction. For the past six years she has led an adolescent program, developing experience in helping young people move toward self-acceptance and healthier coping.

Grief, attachment and relationship struggles, parenting and blended-family issues, and intimacy concerns are among the areas she commonly treats. Sessions often include practical "experiments" between meetings so clients can apply new skills in everyday life and learn from direct experience. Cynthia offers flexible scheduling and practices remotely, meeting with clients by video, phone, chat, or messaging to fit varied needs and lifestyles.

How Cynthia’s Methods Translate to Online Therapy

Cynthia draws from client-centered therapy to create a warm, nonjudgmental space where the client’s priorities guide each session; this approach is especially helpful for building trust and addressing relationship, attachment, and identity concerns. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values, accept difficult internal experiences, and take committed action toward meaningful goals - an approach that can support work with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another tool she applies to identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which is effective for symptoms of anxiety, mood disorders, and many everyday stressors.

Finding the right combination of methods is a collaborative process. Cynthia partners with each client to explore what feels most useful based on their needs, goals, and preferences and adjusts techniques over time as progress unfolds. That collaborative stance carries into the planning of homework and in-session experiments so learning transfers into daily life.

Online therapy with Cynthia offers practical flexibility - sessions can occur by video, by phone, via live chat, or through text-based messaging. This range of formats helps clients fit therapy into busy schedules, reduces travel time, and makes ongoing care more accessible for people in different locations while preserving the same therapeutic focus and professional support they would receive in person.