Cynthia Marcolina, LPC

Cynthia Marcolina is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 35 years of experience. She focuses on practical concerns like stress, anxiety, self-esteem, career questions, depression, grief, addictions, and anger. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues and challenges tied to identity and mood disorders.

Cynthia uses a mix of client-centered, cognitive-behavioral, existential, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing approaches. Sessions tend to be collaborative and conversational. She suggests reading, brief written exercises, and creative activities clients can use between meetings.

Her style favors short, manageable practices that help shift unhelpful self-talk. She works with people who want clearer thinking about control and coping. She encourages present-focused attention as a way to reduce overwhelm and rebuild calm.

Over three decades she has worked across mental health settings and with many different diagnoses. She draws on that breadth to offer straightforward tools for mood regulation and decision making. Practical skills aim to reduce anxiety, improve self-esteem, and teach self-soothing techniques that can be used with or without medication.

In sessions she often pairs cognitive techniques with mindfulness exercises and discussion about values and life purpose. She invites creative means of expression when they fit, such as drawing or journaling. The emphasis is on concrete steps people can try between sessions to notice progress and regain a sense of control.

Therapeutic approaches and online sessions