Individual Psychotherapy

depth therapy for complex and relational trauma. held somatically, culturally, and with the full weight of your history in mind.

Welcome to My Practice,

I’m glad you’re here.

Many people who find their way to my practice are thoughtful, capable, and deeply self-aware, yet still feel caught in cycles of anxiety, grief, perfectionism, or self-doubt that insight alone hasn’t resolved. They’ve talked about it, reflected on it, and tried to think their way through it only to notice their body is still holding the story of shame, anxiety and fear.

As a somatic-based therapist, my work goes beyond talk therapy. Together, we slow down and listen to what your nervous system has been carrying, often long before words were available. Through a trusted therapeutic relationship, we explore emotions, patterns, and past experiences as they arise gently, honestly, and without pressure to perform healing.

The goal is not to fix you or push you toward a version of yourself that looks good on paper, but to support embodied choices that feel grounded, self-led, and true to who you are becoming.

How I Work

My therapeutic style is warm, direct, and culturally attuned. I work from an anti-oppressive, decolonial framework meaning your identity, your lineage, your cultural context, and the systems you've navigated are not background information. They are central to the work.

I am not a one-size-fits-all protocol therapist. Our sessions are responsive to what you bring into the room and I will meet you there with both clinical insights and genuine human presence.

Sessions may integrate:

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

  • Narrative Therapy

  • Brainspotting

  • Mindfulness and grounding practices when supportive

Rather than staying only in analysis, we pay attention to what’s happening emotionally, relationally, and somatically in real time. This allows patterns to shift at the root, not just be managed or intellectualized.

This approach is especially supportive for clients who feel “high functioning” on the outside, yet internally exhausted, disconnected, or carrying long-standing emotional weight.

Learn More About My Approach:

Internal family Systems

Internal Family Systems is the framework that changed how I understand healing and how I understand myself.

IFS invites us to get curious about the parts of us that protect, perform, shut down, or push through in order to understand what they learned to do and why. Beneath every protective part is a younger self that needed something it didn't get.

In IFS we don't pathologize these parts. We listen to them. And slowly, with care, we help them trust that the Self — your core, is here now and capable of leading.

Completed IFS Level 1 Training, September 2019

Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP)

AEDP a healing approach built on the idea of undoing aloneness—you don’t have to face overwhelming emotions or past traumas by yourself. In therapy, we slow down and safely explore what’s happening in your body and emotions, gently welcoming the parts of you that carry pain or protection. This process helps your nervous system settle, allowing grief, anxiety, and perfectionism to shift into relief, clarity, and deeper connection. Many clients describe AEDP as an experience of feeling lighter, more grounded, and more fully themselves.

* Completed Level 1 2024, Level 2 2025

Brainspotting

Brainspotting works with where your eyes naturally want to rest — and uses that as an access point to memories and emotions stored beneath conscious awareness.

Developed by Dr. David Grand, this approach works directly with the subcortical brain — the part that holds trauma physically, not just narratively. Through dual attunement between therapist and client, and the optional use of bilateral sound, Brainspotting allows the nervous system to process what it has been holding often reaching places that words alone cannot.

Completed Brainspotting Level 1 Training, 2023.

Sessions & Care

I offer 50-minute psychotherapy sessions, thoughtfully tailored to support your growth, healing, and capacity. The cost per session is $250. A limited sliding scale is available — reach out to inquire.

This practice is best suited for clients seeking depth, relational care, and meaningful change over time.

When additional or in-person support is clinically indicated beyond what I can provide via teletherapy, I will collaborate with you to offer appropriate referrals and crisis resources, ensuring you are not navigating care alone.

  • Cynthia Magaña, LCSW

    Notice of Privacy Practices

    Effective date: 7/26/2023

    Introduction

    We create a record of the health services you receive to further your care and to comply with certain legal requirements. We are committed to your privacy and are required by law to maintain the privacy and security of your protected health information (PHI). As part of our commitment and legal compliance, we share this Notice of Privacy Practices (“Notice”).

    Contact

    If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact Cynthia Magaña, LCSW at email cynthia@cynmagana.com

    Scope

    This Notice applies to all the information we generate, including information about past, present, or future physical or mental health conditions. We follow - and our employees and other workforce members follow - the duties and privacy practices that this Notice describes and any changes once they take effect.

    Changes to this Notice

    We can change the terms of this Notice, and the changes will apply to all information we have about you. The new notice will be available on request.

    Data Breach Notification

    We will promptly notify you if a data breach occurs that may compromise the privacy or security of your health information.

    Use and Disclosure of Your Information

    There are situations where your health information may be used and disclosed by us. We have listed some common examples of permitted uses and disclosures below.

    When using or disclosing your information or requesting information about you from another source, we will make reasonable efforts to limit our use, disclosure, or request to the minimum we need to accomplish the intended purpose.

    Care and Treatment.

    We may use or disclose your health information with professionals who are treating you, internally and externally, including psychiatrists, psychologists, and your primary care doctor.

    Public Health and Safety Activities

    We may communicate with family members, friends, law enforcement, and others if we feel there is a serious threat to your health and safety or the health and safety of the public or another person. For example, we may share your information to:

    prevent injury;

    report suspected child neglect or abuse, or domestic violence;

    or control disease.

    For Payments and Services

    We may use and share your health information to obtain prior approval for services, bills, or receive payment from health plans or other entities.

    Our Business Associates

    We may use and disclose your information to outside persons or entities that perform services on our behalf, such as auditing, legal, or transcription. We contractually require these parties to use and disclose your information only as permitted and to appropriately safeguard your information.

    Legal Compliance and Law Enforcement

    If required, we will share your information with a federal or state agency with oversight over our activities. We will also share information about you, if necessary, for law enforcement purposes or with a law enforcement official. We take such requests seriously and will consider them carefully. We will make reasonable efforts to limit our disclosure to the minimum amount required.

    Uses and Disclosures that Require Authorization

    To share the following health information, we need your written permission:

    our psychotherapy notes that we maintain separately from your medical record to document or analyze a session; and confidential HIV-related information, unless the disclosure is to an agency allowed to have it by law.

    You may revoke your authorization at any time, but it will not affect information that we already used and disclosed.

    When We Will Not Use or Disclose Your Information

    We will not share your information to:

    market our services, or sell or otherwise receive compensation for disclosing your information.

    Your Rights and Choices

    When it comes to your health information, you have rights. This section covers some of your rights and some of our responsibilities to help you.

    You have the right to:

    1) Inspect and Obtain a Copy of Your Information. You have the right to see or obtain an electronic or paper copy of the information we maintain about you, except for the psychotherapy notes that we maintain separately from your medical record to document or analyze a session. You may request your psychotherapy treatment summary and, if we deny your request, we will provide you with an explanation. I provide psychotherapy within 10 days of receiving your request.

    2) Make Amendments. You may ask us to correct or amend information that we maintain about you that you think is incorrect or inaccurate.

    3) Authorize Disclosures of Your Information. You have both the right and choice to tell us whether to share information, such as your health information, general condition, or location, with your family, close friends, or others involved in your care. You can revoke these authorizations at any time, subject to our then-current privacy practices.

    4) Request Restrictions on Our Disclosures in Emergency Situations. You have both the right and choice to tell us whether to share information in an emergency situation, such as to an organization or law enforcement, to assist with locating or notifying your family, close friends, or others involved in your care. We will make reasonable efforts to follow your instructions, but we may share your information if we believe it is in your best interest, according to our best judgment, and if you are unable to tell us your preference (for example, if you are unconscious) or when needed to lessen a serious and imminent threat to health or safety.

    5) Request Additional Restrictions. You have the right to ask us not to use or share certain information for treatment, payment, or operations or with certain persons involved in your care. For these requests: we are not required to agree; we may say “no” if it would affect your care; but we will agree not to disclose information to a health plan for purposes of payment or health care operations if the requested restriction concerns a health care item or service for which you or another person, other than the health plan, paid in full out-of-pocket, unless it is otherwise required by law.

    6) Request an Accounting of Disclosures. You have the right to request an accounting of certain disclosures that we have made. For these requests: we will include all the disclosures except for those about treatment, payment, and health care operations, and certain other disclosures, such as any you asked us to make; and we will provide one accounting a year for free.

    7) Choose Someone to Act for You. If you have given someone medical power of attorney or if someone is your legal guardian, that person can exercise your rights and make choices about your information.

    8 ) Request Confidential Communications. You have the right to request that we communicate with you about health matters in a certain way or at a certain location. For example, you can ask that we only contact you at a specific address. For these requests: you must specify how or where you wish to be contacted; and we will accommodate reasonable requests.

    9) Make Complaints. You have the right to complain if you feel we have violated your rights. We will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint.

    New York:

    You may either file a complaint: directly with us by contacting Cynthia Magaña, LCSW at 347-315-1482, or with the Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Health and Human Services, 886-627-7748,www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/complaints/

    California:

    If you believe I have violated your privacy rights, you have the right to file a complaint in writing with Cynthia Magana Licensed Clinical Social Worker, the California Department of Consumer Affairs/Board of Behavioral Sciences, California Board of Licensed Social Workers, or with the Secretary of Health and Human Services at 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 or by calling (202) 619-0257. The Board of Behavioral Services (BBS) receives and responds to complaints regarding services provided within the scope of practice of licenses clinical social workers in California. You may contact the BBS online at www.bbs.ca.gov, or by calling (916) 574-7830. The California State Board of Licensed Social Workers (Board) is the oversight regulatory agency responsible for licensing, regulating and disciplining regulated social workers in California. The Board accepts written complaints from individuals who have concerns regarding the conduct of licensees. You can view information about filing a complaint on the Board’s website: https://www.bbs.ca.gov/consumers/consumer_complaints.html.

  • You have the right to receive a "Good Faith Estimate" explaining how much your medical and mental health care will cost.

    Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don't have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the expected charges for medical services, including psychotherapy services.

    You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services. You can ask your health care provider, or any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a service.

    If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.

    For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit No Surprises Act

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    Your mobile information will not be shared with any third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. All policies are followed as per CTIA guidelines 5.2.1. At any time if you want your information to be removed, you can contact us via our email address or regular mail.