Cynthia Prince, LCSW

Cynthia Prince is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 38 years of experience supporting people across a wide range of settings and life stages. Her career has included more than three decades working for the State of New York, service in correctional facilities from maximum to medium security, residential care for youth, and outpatient work with children and community adults. She has also served as an on-call psychiatric evaluator in emergency rooms and as a therapist at a local family medical center, seeing college students and neighborhood residents.

Throughout her career Cynthia has worked with mandated clients, incarcerated people, adolescents involved in the juvenile system, and families coping with complex challenges. Her clinical experience spans mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression, anxiety and trauma-related concerns including PTSD, attachment and abandonment issues, ADHD, grief and loss, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, self-injury and abuse, eating and sleeping problems, parenting and relationship struggles, substance-related concerns, personality and neurodevelopmental disorders, and issues of self-esteem and anger.

She prefers to avoid reducing people to labels and emphasizes respect, professionalism, and compassion in her work. Cynthia draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a core method and adapts treatment plans to fit each person’s unique needs. She brings warmth and humor into sessions and sometimes includes Major, her virtual emotional support pet, when appropriate and agreeable to those present. Cynthia encourages anyone seeking help to find a therapist who feels like a good fit. She is not accepting clients.