About Cindy
Cindy Cothran is a licensed counselor who aims to make starting therapy less overwhelming. She offers a steady, empathetic presence and prioritizes each person’s needs. Cindy uses clear, down-to-earth language and gentle humor to build connection and help people manage anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life transitions.
She brings 18 years of clinical experience and adapts her approach to each person’s goals. Sessions focus on practical skills and on noticing how feelings show up in the body.
Background and approach
Somatic work is one thread she uses alongside talk-based methods to help people feel more grounded and present. Cindy draws from attachment-based and client-centered approaches to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space. She also incorporates elements of dialectical behavior therapy and EMDR when they fit someone’s needs.
Her style is sincere and wholehearted, focused on respect and collaboration. In sessions she helps people track reactions, practice coping skills, and make small changes that add up. Topics she addresses include relationship patterns, self-esteem, grief, parenting stress, work strain, and struggles with mood or addictive behaviors.
She is also experienced with issues like attachment concerns, communication problems, codependency, and non-monogamous relationship dynamics. Cindy is licensed as an LPCC and an LPC and works with adults from Tennessee. She conducts sessions in English and offers several online formats to fit busy lives.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone with the right schedule and format.
How Cindy’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Somatic work pays attention to how emotions show up in the body. Online sessions can include guided awareness of breathing, posture, and bodily sensations to help ground feelings and reduce overwhelming reactions. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early connections shape current relationships and focuses on building supported, safer ways of relating that reduce conflict and loneliness.Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience and moves at their pace. In an online setting this means the therapist listens closely, reflects what is said, and follows the client’s priorities while offering gentle guidance and options for practical change. Together the therapist and client decide which approaches to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions remove the need for video, and live chat or text messaging can support short check-ins or processing between sessions. These options make it easier to practice skills in real life and to keep continuity when schedules or locations change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, California
- Languages
- English