Cindy Llora , LMFT

Cindy Llora is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who brings more than a decade of clinical experience to work with individuals, couples, and families. She holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from California State University, Northridge. Licensed in both Arizona and California, she currently provides therapy for clients in Arizona and maintains an Arizona LMFT credential.

Cindy has developed focused expertise in areas such as addiction, trauma, grief and loss, family conflict, and relationship difficulties. Her background includes work with individuals and families affected by addiction and alcoholism, people living with post-traumatic stress, including Vietnam veterans, and clients with co-occurring diagnoses. She emphasizes helping clients make sense of persistent negative memories or thoughts and supports them in reshaping unhelpful narratives to build healthier patterns.

Clinical work integrates evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, client-centered therapy, narrative approaches, mindfulness practices, and solution-oriented techniques. She also draws on creative tools such as song lyrics and songwriting when working with clients facing addiction, trauma, or loss. Cindy approaches therapy as an opportunity to collaborate with clients to create a more balanced and meaningful life.

Attachment-Informed and Acceptance-Based Online Care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and focuses on clarifying values to guide meaningful action. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns formed in close relationships and how early experiences influence current connections. It is useful for relationship struggles, abandonment concerns, and improving emotional bonds.

Client-centered therapy puts the person at the heart of the process, offering empathetic listening and support so clients can explore their own solutions; it often complements more structured techniques to build self-understanding and resilience.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Cindy collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as therapy progresses so the work remains practical and relevant.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit sessions into a busy life and to access licensed professionals from different locations. These options support continuity of care and let clients choose the format that feels most comfortable for their circumstances.