Cynthia DeSantis is a licensed clinical social worker. This is the highest clinical social work license that can be earned to practice as an independent psychotherapist. Cynthia completed her MSW degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, graduating with honors. She is a well-respected clinician with over 25 years of clinical experience. She relocated her successful long-term private practice as a psychotherapist in the Washington, DC/College Park, Maryland area to Colorado. She has extensive clinical experience working with a wide variety of clients, couples, and families of different ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Cynthia specializes in depressive disorders, anxiety and panic disorders, bipolar disorder, trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder, and stressor-related disorders. She is competent in dealing with grief and loss, clients suffering with painful relationship issues, sleeping problems, and eating disorders, especially males with disordered eating. She provides services to individuals, couples, and families as they adjust to changes in individual and family life-cycle phases and those coping with chronic mental illness(es), medical illness(es), disease(s), dementia, and cancer.

Cynthia offers an experiential approach and integrates elements of the best, well-established therapeutic approaches, tailored to client self-determination as well as clients' unique needs, goals, and challenges. Clients obtain more vital, creative, and satisfactory coping skills and gain greater psychological understanding and insight. She also helps clients overcome negative patterns of thinking and learn how to release their feelings in a healthy way. Cynthia actively engages and deeply listens so that she can provide interactive and collaborative talk therapy in a safe environment. She has a solid understanding of when psychopharmacology is warranted.

Cynthia is committed to her own personal growth, self-care, and continuing education.