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Cyndi Parkes, Therapist
Therapist in Riverside, California

Cyndi Parkes, Therapist

Specialties:
Ability status ADHD Aging +73
Provider Gender: Female (She/Her)
Ages Served: 11-75+
Appointments: In-office and Telehealth
Manages Medications: No, provides therapy only
Accepts Insurance: Yes - View accepted plans

Cindy Parkes, LCSW, offers compassionate and experienced mental health care to individuals across California. She supports adolescents, teens, and adults through life’s most complex emotional challenges, including anxiety, depression, trauma, and sleep disturbances. At LifeStance Health, Cindy provides individualized therapy that emphasizes both healing and personal empowerment, helping her patients develop new tools to manage distress and move forward with confidence.

Cindy is especially passionate about working with individuals experiencing trauma, depression, anxiety, and sleep disorders. Whether addressing the lingering effects of PTSD, the emotional weight of grief or divorce, or the struggles of insomnia, she provides a calm and supportive space where healing can begin. Her therapeutic approach draws on evidence-based techniques like EMDR, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and CBT for Insomnia, allowing her to customize treatment to meet each patient’s needs. Cindy also incorporates mindfulness and faith-based interventions for those who wish to explore a more spiritual path to recovery.

In addition to her focus on mood and trauma-related conditions, Cindy offers specialized support for first responders, military veterans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. She has a deep understanding of the unique challenges these populations face and works with them to process difficult experiences, rebuild resilience, and restore a sense of identity and well-being. Cindy also addresses broader concerns such as midlife and later-life transitions, postpartum issues, and women’s mental health.

Outside of her clinical work, Cindy finds joy and balance through hiking, dancing, horseback riding, singing, and creating pastel art. She values time with family and friends and brings that same warmth and connection into her therapeutic relationships.

Provider Introduction

Types of Care & Ages Served

Areas of Focus

Family Therapy

Improve communication and resolve conflicts within family dynamics with a clinician's guidance.

  • Social skills & communication
  • Ability status
  • ADHD
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Caregiving
  • Childhood behavioral issues
  • Chronic pain-related issues
  • Conditions caused by stress
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • End-of-life challenges
  • Ethnic identity
  • Family conflict
  • First responder stress
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Gambling
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hallucinations
  • Immigration/cultural status
  • Intense mood changes
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other addictive behaviors
  • Other women's health concerns
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Parenting
  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Pornography/sexual behaviors
  • Premarital counseling
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Racial identity
  • Religion & spirituality
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • School behavioral issues
  • Self-esteem
  • Self-injury or cutting
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sexual trauma
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social injustice
  • Stress management
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs
  • Video game/internet

Individual Therapy

Get help addressing challenges and improve well-being with a clinician's guidance.

  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Focus, concentration & memory
  • Intense mood changes
  • Menopause & perimenopause
  • Other women's health concerns
  • PMS & PMDD
  • Sexual trauma
  • Trauma & PTSD
  • Ability status
  • ADHD
  • Adoption & foster care
  • Aging
  • Alcohol use
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment issues
  • Attention & focus
  • Body image
  • Bullying or harassment
  • Career & relationships (mid-life)
  • Career & work issues
  • Caregiving
  • Childhood behavioral issues
  • Chronic pain-related issues
  • Conditions caused by stress
  • Depression/feeling down
  • Detachment/disconnection
  • Dissociative disorders
  • Domestic violence & abuse
  • Drug/substance use
  • Early adulthood: Independent living or relationships
  • Early adulthood: Starting college or career
  • Eating issues: binging
  • Emotional abuse
  • Empty nesters
  • End-of-life challenges
  • Ethnic identity
  • Family conflict
  • First responder stress
  • Gambling
  • General relationship issues
  • Grief & loss
  • Hair pulling & skin picking
  • Hallucinations
  • Hoarding
  • Immigration/cultural status
  • LGBTQ+
  • Marital stress or divorce
  • Men's health/issues
  • Military & veteran
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Other addictive behaviors
  • Panic attacks
  • Parenthood
  • Parenting
  • Patterns affecting behavior, emotions and relationships
  • Personality disorders
  • Phobias
  • Pornography/sexual behaviors
  • Premarital counseling
  • Psychosis/issues with reality
  • Racial identity
  • Religion & spirituality
  • Retirement
  • Schizophrenia/schizoaffective
  • School behavioral issues
  • Self-esteem
  • Sex & intimacy issues
  • Sleep issues or insomnia
  • Social injustice
  • Social skills & communication
  • Stress from ongoing health issues
  • Stress management
  • Unhealthy eating habits
  • Unusual thoughts or beliefs
  • Video game/internet

Languages

  • English

Education

  • California State University - Bakersfield

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Cyndi Parkes, Therapist

Cyndi Parkes

Therapist in Riverside, California

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