Cynthia Mickel, LPC

Cynthia Mickel is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience in community counseling and substance abuse settings. She works in Texas and brings a calm, approachable style to sessions. Cynthia is comfortable listening when someone needs to vent, and she also helps people who want to dig into the reasons they sought therapy in the first place.

She uses a client-centered way of working and starts where each person is. Cynthia believes clients already carry the capacity to heal and change, and her role is to guide that process. She describes herself as laid-back and easy to talk to, which many people find helpful when they first reach out.

Her background includes leadership roles in residential substance use treatment and running adolescent programs. That experience informs her approach with people facing trauma, grief, mood disorders, and addiction. Cynthia has worked with adolescents and adults on issues such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and PTSD.

In sessions she offers practical follow-up tasks or experiments to try between meetings. These are simple exercises meant to test what is learned in session and bring it into everyday life. Cynthia asks clients to be active in the work and promises to match their effort without doing the work for them.

People come to her for help with stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, substance use, and coping with major life changes. She accepts clients from outside the U.S. and works with English-speaking clients by remote appointment.

How Cynthia’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them dictate actions, then choose values-based steps forward. It can help with anxiety, stress, stuckness, and big life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses small experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting; it is often useful for anxiety and mood concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding attachment and emotions in close relationships, and can help when intimacy and communication are a struggle.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Cynthia discusses the different methods and helps clients decide which fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts sessions over time as progress and priorities change, so the work stays relevant to daily life.

Because she practices remotely from home, online sessions aim to fit into everyday schedules. Many clients appreciate not needing extra travel time and being able to schedule sessions around work or family demands. Cynthia commonly assigns short between-session exercises so people can test what they learn in real situations. Confirm the current session formats before booking to make sure they match your needs.