About Cindy
Cindy Tenaglia is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania with 18 years of experience. She brings a warm, empathic style and a focus on practical steps that help people move forward. Her approach centers on collaboration and helping each person find what works best for them.
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, client-centered listening, and solution-focused thinking. Sessions focus on clear goals and simple skills people can use between meetings.
How Cindy works
That makes therapy feel useful from the start. Cindy has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings and has experience addressing a wide range of concerns. She supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes.
She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strains, career challenges, eating and body issues, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, blended family dynamics, communication problems, codependency, and forgiveness work. She integrates coaching elements when helpful to support real-world steps and habit changes.
Sessions are offered in English and are available via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Cindy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time and works with each person to set goals that reflect their values and daily life.
Cindy lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Cindy works with
The areas below are the ones Cindy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. It focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choosing actions that matter. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention exercises to reduce reactivity and build awareness of the present moment. These skills can ease anxiety, improve mood, and support coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. That means sessions can blend ACT, mindfulness, client-centered listening, and solution-focused tools to match a person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people work face-to-face when interaction matters, phone can fit a short check-in or lower bandwidth needs, and chat or text allow ongoing reflection and quick touchpoints between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or busy schedules while keeping progress focused on real-world steps.
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