About Cynthia Browne:
Ms. Browne has provided therapy for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families for over 25 years. She has a special interest in counseling children and adolescents with anxiety and mood disorders. Additionally, she has significant experience in treating conflicts within families and couples. Particularly skilled in treating anxiety issues, Ms. Browne utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Exposure Response Prevention (ERP), and biofeedback breath training. She is a senior clinician at the Anxiety and Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, graduated from Smith College School for Social Work, and has taught at Towson University. She is currently accepting new patients in both her Easton and Towson offices.
Conditions Treated:
- Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia
- Specific Phobias (e.g., fear of: storms, animals, insects, needles, dentist, Bay Bridge, tunnels)
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, including OCD that remains in the thoughts and not in action, such as: "what if" thinking, catastrophic thinking
- Adjustment issues: anxiety and depressive symptoms due to upsetting life events: separation and divorce, grief, unemployment, move to another area, difficulties in conception, medical issues in oneself or family members, birth of a sibling, etc.
- Generalized anxiety
- Social Anxiety
- School refusal
- Depression and other complex mood disorders, including bipolar illness
- Stress and general unhappiness
- Couples and family conflicts
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Treatments Offered:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Exposure Response Prevention Therapy (the evidence-based treatment for OCD)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Family therapy
- Object relations based psychotherapy
- Biofeedback breath training
- Mindfulness
- Meditation
- In vivo therapy (accompanying the client to the feared situation and helping them use coping skills)
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