Cynthia Cunningham

Cynthia Cunningham is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience in California. She shares from personal recovery, including 35 years of sobriety and work through codependency and love addiction. That lived experience shapes how she talks with people and what she expects from the process. Cynthia aims to help people stop pursuing relationships that hurt them and learn to care for themselves instead.

Her sessions focus on practical change. She uses plain language and direct skills you can practice between meetings. Cynthia helps people set boundaries, learn how to say no kindly, and manage anxiety or panic when it arises. She also supports people dealing with depression, grief, stress, and challenges around intimacy and self-esteem.

Her clinical approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and psychodynamic ideas to uncover patterns that keep people stuck. She also uses acceptance-based and attachment-informed methods to rebuild how people relate to themselves and others. In the room she balances structure with a warm, steady presence so clients feel guided but still in control.

Clients often come with addictions, codependency, or relationship pain, but Cynthia also addresses sleep and eating concerns, career strain, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and caregiver stress. She works with controlling or avoidant behavior, abandonment fears, and communication breakdowns. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at small, sustainable steps.

She invites people who are ready to try something different to take the first step. Cynthia presents therapy as a collaborative journey and offers practical tools alongside reflections about what led someone here.

Approaches you can use in online sessions