- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LPCC, LPC
- Licensed in
- Tennessee, California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Cindy
Cindy Cothran is a licensed clinician who focuses on helping people manage stress, parenting challenges, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She draws on 18 years of experience to offer steady, practical support. Her tone is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make the first steps easier for someone looking for help.
Cindy uses plain conversation, gentle humor, and active listening to build trust. She adapts methods to match each person’s goals rather than using one fixed approach.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize understanding reactions, building new skills, and finding realistic ways to cope with day-to-day problems. Her background includes work with mood disorders, grief, addiction concerns, and complex trauma. She also supports people dealing with relationship patterns, attachment issues, and questions about sexuality and non-monogamous arrangements.
Cindy often combines trauma-focused tools with skills-based methods to meet each client where they are. Cindy holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in Tennessee. She works with adults who face life changes like divorce, fertility struggles, career stress, or caregiving strain.
Conversations typically explore patterns, practical strategies, and small experiments to test new ways of relating and coping. Therapy sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone visits, live chat, or text messaging. Many people find this flexibility helps fit therapy into a busy life and keeps momentum between appointments.
What Cindy works with
Everything Cindy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Cindy helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Cindy lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Cindy’s Approaches Work Online
Cindy often uses attachment-based work to help people notice patterns in close relationships and feel more supported in how they connect. That approach looks at how early relationship experiences shape current reactions and helps build new ways of relating.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, for teaching practical skills. DBT focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication, which can help with strong mood swings, anxiety, and overwhelming stress.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. Cindy will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they decide what to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues while phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, practicing new skills, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
Questions people ask about Cindy
What concerns does Cindy commonly address?
Cindy works with a broad range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addiction, parenting, grief, and relationship issues. She also addresses topics like ADHD, mood disorders, and problems tied to family of origin.
What is her therapy style like?
She blends an attachment-based approach with client-centered care and practical skills work. Sessions are conversational, with a focus on understanding patterns and trying small changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
Cindy has 18 years of experience working as a therapist and has developed a flexible set of approaches over that time. She adapts methods to match each person’s goals.
Where is Cindy licensed and located?
She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in Tennessee. These credentials are listed as LPCC and LPC in her profile.
What languages are offered for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy can be delivered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging according to the session formats listed.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
To get started, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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