About Cindy
Cindy Tenaglia is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania. She brings 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions with a warm, practical approach. Cindy uses straightforward conversation to identify small, useful steps people can try between sessions.
She emphasizes values-driven change and day-to-day strategies that reduce struggle. Sessions are tailored to each person’s situation and preferences. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient settings and a degree from Bryn Mawr School of Social Work.
Background and approach
Early in life she lived in a small intentional community, an experience that shaped how she values cooperation and clear communication. Cindy often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with mindfulness and solution-focused techniques. She helps people notice what matters to them, accept hard feelings, and take manageable action toward those values.
That approach is useful for anxiety, depression, relationship and parenting concerns, and career stress. She also draws on client-centered principles, listening closely and adapting her style to each person. Her experience includes addressing issues like ADHD, compassion fatigue, eating and body concerns, attachment and family of origin patterns, and caregiving stress.
The overall aim is practical improvement in daily life and clearer direction for the future.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters most to them, accept difficult thoughts or feelings, and take small actions toward valued goals. It tends to help with anxiety, stress, and feeling stuck. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm awareness, which can ease worry and improve focus.Choosing the right method is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and try approaches collaboratively. Together they will test what helps and adjust the plan as needed so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make sessions fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins and brief coaching between appointments. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter follow-ups, and ways to keep progress moving when life gets hectic.
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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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