Works with
- Anger
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Cynia works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Cynia
Cynia Black is a licensed clinical social worker who brings seven years of practice to helping people through hard moments. She started in intensive in-home and outpatient settings, working closely with children and families. Cynia focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
She talks plainly and helps clients make changes that fit their daily lives. Her background includes work with youth from birth through late adolescence and their caregivers.
Background and approach
That experience shaped how she sees behavior - often as a response to big life changes or lack of control rather than willful defiance. She carries that perspective into sessions with adults facing parenting, relationship, and family challenges. Cynia uses goal-oriented methods and skills coaching to reduce stress, manage anger, and ease anxiety.
She also supports people dealing with grief, trauma, depression, compassion fatigue, and the pressures of caregiving. Sessions emphasize building coping skills, improving communication, and restoring a sense of agency. People describe her style as straightforward and collaborative.
She blends structured tools with questions that help clients decide what matters most. That makes therapy feel focused and useful between sessions. Cynia practices in North Carolina and holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to match different routines. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair needs with scheduling options.
What Cynia works with
Everything Cynia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Cynia's practice.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Cynia lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused 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 online approaches and practical tools fit your life
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps people spot patterns that fuel anxiety, anger, or low mood and practice new, healthier responses. Motivational Interviewing is a short, conversational approach that helps someone find their own reasons to change and build small steps toward those goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about what feels useful and try methods that match each persons goals and preferences. Decisions are collaborative and adjusted over time based on what’s helping.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face across distance. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a lighter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief conversations into a busy day or keep momentum between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and for using tools that fit a client's routine and comfort.
Questions people ask about Cynia
What kinds of problems does Cynia address?
She helps people facing family conflict, parenting stress, grief, trauma, depression, anxiety, anger, self-esteem struggles, and life transitions.
What is her therapy style like?
Sessions are goal-oriented and practical. She uses clear tools and collaborative conversation to build coping skills and improve communication.
How long has she been practicing?
Cynia has seven years of experience, much of it in intensive in-home and outpatient mental health settings working with youth and families.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in North Carolina.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the US work with her?
She is not accepting international clients and works with people located where her license applies.
What session formats are available?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does cost and starting therapy work?
Cost varies with location and scheduling and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on availability.