About Cindy
Cindy Tenaglia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with 18 years of clinical experience. She offers a warm, empathic style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Cindy emphasizes practical coaching as well as therapy to help people move toward the life they value.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, and mindfulness practices to build self-awareness and psychological flexibility.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying what matters to the person and developing small, doable steps toward those values. Solution-focused techniques are used when people want brief, goal-oriented work. Cindy has worked in both in-patient and out-patient settings and has supported people with a wide range of challenges, including depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, ADHD, eating issues, and career stress.
She also addresses family-of-origin patterns, caregiver stress, and chronic illness or pain. Her background includes a degree from the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work and a period living in a communal setting that shaped her collaborative approach. She values self-directed learning and has experience homeschooling her own children, which informs her coaching style.
In sessions, clients can expect a conversational, tailored approach. Cindy uses the ACT Matrix and mindfulness exercises alongside practical problem-solving. The focus is on reducing unhelpful struggle and increasing actions that align with the client’s priorities.
How Cindy’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful patterns and choose actions that match their values. It uses exercises to increase awareness and small behavioral steps to reduce ongoing struggle. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration, giving people space to lead the conversation while the therapist reflects and supports their goals.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Cindy will work together with each person to identify which methods feel most useful. She tailors the mix of ACT, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to fit the client's concerns, goals, and daily life preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging offer flexibility for quick reflections, homework check-ins, or when people prefer written exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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