Cynthia Rumford-Jones

Cynthia Rumford-Jones is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with more than two decades of experience in social work and therapy. She uses a calm, client-centered style and brings practical strategies to sessions. Cynthia focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes.

She also supports people facing relationship and family conflict, parenting and foster care concerns, grief and loss, eating-related struggles, and trauma and abuse. Her background includes work with bipolar disorder and attention challenges, and she addresses issues like communication problems, control issues, and impulsivity.

Cynthia draws on Mindfulness Therapy alongside client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice thoughts and feelings and try new responses. She uses elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Motivational Interviewing when they fit someone’s goals. Sessions emphasize clear, achievable steps and skills people can use between meetings.

Her training includes a Master of Social Work from the University of California, Berkeley, and she holds the LCSW credential in California. She has worked in public and private settings across clinical and human services roles for over 22 years, giving her experience with complex and long-term challenges.

People who choose Cynthia can expect a warm, interactive therapeutic relationship that aims to set specific goals. She encourages collaboration on a treatment plan and focuses on practical tools for coping and problem solving. If someone wants to begin, she guides them through scheduling and goal planning.

How mindful, client-centered, and CBT ideas fit online work

Mindfulness Therapy helps people become more aware of thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations so they can respond differently to stress and anxiety. In practice this often means learning simple attention and breathing exercises, and noticing patterns that make problems worse.

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a collaborative relationship. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they share, and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers steps to test and change unhelpful patterns, which can be especially useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. Cynthia will work together with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences, adjusting strategies as needs change. That process includes trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and setting practical goals.

Confirm available session options before booking, since formats are set by the therapist. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove the need to be on camera for every meeting. These practical benefits help people use therapy consistently while focusing on skills, mindfulness practice, and problem-solving.