- ACT and CBT methods
- Mindfulness practices
- Work and life balance
About Cindy
Cindy Baker is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor in Georgia with 21 years of experience. She works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career concerns, coping with life changes, and social anxiety and phobia among other issues. She also supports people facing relationship strain, workplace problems, mood challenges, and parenting concerns. Sessions emphasize practical steps and clear conversation to help people manage what feels overwhelming.
Cindy uses a mix of approaches drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Existential Therapy. In practice she breaks problems into manageable pieces. She helps people notice thoughts and behaviors, try small experiments, and make choices that match their values.
Her style favors straightforward questions and concrete practices over long theory. She often combines mindfulness-based ideas with exercises to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. When mood or panic symptoms are present, sessions focus on skills to reduce immediate distress and then on longer-term goals like rebuilding confidence and routines.
Cindy's background includes many years studying human behavior, mindfulness, and positive psychology. She has run a private counseling practice in Georgia for over ten years and brings experience from coaching, workplace consulting, and writing about life-balance and career topics.
People who prefer a direct, practical conversation about what to try next may find her approach helpful. If someone wants to explore values, manage anxiety around social situations, or sort career decisions, sessions work toward clear next steps and observable shifts.
How Cindy integrates approaches in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and then take actions that align with what matters to them. It is useful for anxiety, including worries about social situations, when someone wants to act despite uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and supplies concrete skills to test and change thinking patterns that keep anxiety or depression active. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, clarifying a person's goals, and supporting their capacity to make choices that feel right.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about current goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods and adjust them based on what works in practice rather than relying on labels alone.
The profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when schedules require, or avoid travel time. It also allows continuing regular therapeutic work when life changes make in-person visits difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT and CBT exercises for remote sessions so skills practice and planning still move forward.
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Experience
21+ years
Listed in
Georgia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career decisions, coping with life changes, and social anxiety and phobia, plus related mood and relationship issues.
What is her therapeutic style?
Sessions are practical and conversational, using exercises from ACT and CBT along with client-centered listening and emotionally-focused work as needed.
How much experience does she have?
She has 21 years of experience and has run a private counseling practice in Georgia for over ten years.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor, licensed in Georgia, and practices from that state.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats.
How does payment work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin a first session?
Choose the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.