Cynthia Cunningham, LMFT
California · 27 years in practice
Cynthia Cunningham is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 34049 · expires November 2026
- NPI
- 1275798241 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 27
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Cynthia
Cynthia Cunningham is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of clinical experience. She draws on long-term personal recovery to inform a compassionate, practical style. Clients meet a therapist who knows both professional methods and lived experience.
Sessions focus on real change in everyday life. Cynthia emphasizes helping people stop patterns that no longer serve them and build healthier habits. She offers straightforward tools for saying no, setting boundaries, and shifting codependent behaviors.
Background and approach
Her background includes long sobriety and recovery from love addiction, which guides her work with addictions and relationship-related concerns. Her approach mixes evidence-based strategies and a person-centered attitude. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, attachment-based ideas, and acceptance-focused practices are woven into sessions.
Hypnotherapy is also part of her toolkit when clients want to try suggestive, mind-body techniques to support change. Clients bring a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, anger, stress, ADHD, sleep and eating problems, career struggles, and intimacy issues. She also addresses complex areas like abandonment, caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, and body image.
Conversations stay practical and goal-oriented to help people move forward. Cynthia describes therapy as a partnership where the client remains in control. She aims to teach skills people can use between sessions while offering steady support.
If someone is ready to take a first step, she invites them to begin a collaborative process toward clearer choices and healthier relationships.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Cynthia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Cynthia names
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and to act in ways that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by clarifying what matters and building committed action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. CBT is often used for anxiety, panic, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Cynthia collaborates with each person to identify goals and to try methods that fit their needs and preferences. She helps clients test techniques and adjusts the plan as progress becomes clear. Online sessions offer flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit moments of support into a busy day and to keep momentum between sessions. These options help people access care without traveling and make regular meetings more convenient for work and family schedules.We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What concerns can Cynthia help with?
She works with addictions, relationship and family concerns, anger, self-esteem, stress, anxiety, grief, intimacy and related issues, eating and sleeping problems, career matters, bipolar and depression, coping with life changes, and ADHD among other areas.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her sessions are practical and person-centered, mixing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered listening to focus on real life changes.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 27 years of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist in California and brings decades of personal recovery experience to her work.
Where is Cynthia licensed and located?
She holds a California LMFT credential and practices in California.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be conducted via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to start working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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