- Years in practice
- 18
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Self esteem
About Cindy
Cindy Tenaglia is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Pennsylvania. She brings 18 years of experience helping adults who feel stuck by using practical, person-focused methods. Her approach is warm and collaborative and emphasizes real change over jargon.
She often helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and low self-esteem. She also supports those facing parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy concerns, career transitions, and the strain that comes from caregiving or chronic health issues.
Background and approach
Cindy works with people across a wide range of life situations, including LGBT concerns, eating and body-image issues, and ADHD-related struggles. Cindy uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered methods, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques. In sessions she helps people notice what matters to them, try small behavioral steps, and build daily habits that reflect their values.
Her style is conversational and tailored to each person’s pace and goals. Her background includes clinical work in both in-patient and out-patient settings. She also has experience offering coaching and practical problem solving, and she has applied a self-directed learning philosophy from homeschooling her own children for nine years.
Those experiences shape how she partners with people in therapy. Sessions aim to reduce unhelpful struggle and increase meaningful action. Cindy uses tools like the ACT Matrix to help clients identify unhelpful patterns and move toward what they care about.
She supports steady progress through short-term goals and ongoing reflection.
What Cindy works with
Everything Cindy lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Cindy helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Cindy lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Cindy’s approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, consistent steps toward those values. It’s useful for worry, low mood, grief, parenting stress, and patterns that keep people stuck. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and reflecting what a person experiences so they feel understood and can make their own choices. This approach supports anyone needing a compassionate space to sort priorities and feelings.Finding the right method is part of the process. Cindy will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit best based on goals and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting work together as needed to make progress that feels meaningful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving routines, or irregular schedules while using ACT and client-centered techniques effectively online.
Questions people ask about Cindy
What issues does she help with?
Cindy works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting questions, eating-related concerns, ADHD, and caregiver strain.
What is her therapeutic style?
She uses a warm, client-centered style that focuses on collaboration. Sessions emphasize noticing values, taking practical steps, and building habits that fit each person.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 18 years of clinical experience working in both in-patient and out-patient settings and has provided coaching and therapy across many life concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She holds the LCSW credential and practices in Pennsylvania.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does pricing and payment work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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