CYNDI LONG, LCSW
Individual Therapy
Initial 15 Minute Consultation Free
Individual Therapy Sessions are 50 Minutes
Cost Per Individual Session $195.00
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Women’s Issues
Friendships, Parenting, Postpartum, Divorce, Work/Life Balance, Recovery, Empty Nest, Menopause, Retirement, Grief, and all around Phase Of Life Transitions. The list of challenges can be exhaustive and highly personal. There are different approaches to addressing the difficulties women face in our society. I found that returning to or discovering one’s values, leaning into your culture, and learning present moment awareness, are good ways to start. Moving on to develop the skills of self-compassion, giving self-care an honest effort, and identifying what is most important to you (separate from the roles you play), will reduce stress and overload, while you also begin to create the life you want to be living.
Gender Therapy
This is a safe space to explore gender identity and find ways to cope with gender dysphoria or euphoria before, during, and after gender affirming health care decisions. I became passionate about supporting and uplifting transgender and nonbinary identifying people when my family member came out and transitioned. Being an ally for the past eight years meant dedicating time and resources to training around healthcare needs and best practices. I get to be a compassionate and educated therapeutic support for a community, whom are often misrepresented. My work over the past two years has been in cooperation and consultation with the Transgender Health Care Multi-Specialty-Team (Mist Clinic) at Kaiser Oakland.
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Mood Dysregulation
If you are a person who feels your feelings with 110% of your being, experiences hurts or slights by friends and family, or has a hard time managing emotions when other’s are disappointed or upset with you, then learning Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills is likely a good option for you. Navigating communication isn't always easy, especially when you have to consider not only your own, but the other person’s perceptions, interpretations, and beliefs. Learning how to be effective in asking for what you need, or getting your point across, while also getting what you want from the communication, is the key to balanced and peaceful relationships.
Transitional Age Youth (TAY) 18-25 year olds
Adulting is hard! My background is in working with late adolescence through young adults who have been at risk of homelessness, substance abuse, relationship difficulties, academic challenges, and unemployment or underemployment. If you are uncertain of what you want to do in this ever changing world, I offer you the insight, compassion, and encouragement you'll need to move in the direction of your authentic self. It is difficult when pressure from family, school, and the community are pushing you down a path that doesn’t seem to fit for you. Life can sometimes feel overwhelming and hopeless. In therapy, I create a nonjudgmental space for you to explore what you want out of life, and to learn the skills you need to move toward the goals you set for yourself.
I have found that TAY learn best from interacting with each other as opposed to having another “adult” telling them what they “should” do. This observation is also supported by research around psychodynamic process groups for young adults who are having a hard time “launching” into adulthood. “Failure to Launch: Conceptualizing the Client,” by Emily D. Jacobs, MA
I plan to develop a process group specifically for TAY to create a safe space to try out new skills developed in individual therapy, where you can get and give "here and now" supportive feedback from peers, in a nonjudgmental compassionate therapeutic environment. If you are someone who worries about saying the wrong thing in social settings, or that your friends have left you behind, or that you don't think dating is in the cards for you, or can't seem to find the "right" partner, and have the sense that your self-esteem is in the toilet, then this group would likely benefit you.
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“Joining a group is useful because it provides opportunities to learn with and from other people, to understand one’s own patterns of thought and behavior and those of others, and to perceive how group members react to one another. We live and interact with people every day and often there are things that other people are experiencing or grappling with that can be beneficial to share with others. In group therapy, you learn that perhaps you’re not as different as you think or that you’re not alone. You’ll meet and interact with people, and the whole group learns work on shared problems — one of the most beneficial aspects. The more you involve yourself in the group, the more you get out of it." “Group Works!” American Group Psychotherapy Associations
