About Cindee
Cindee Oswald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with eleven years of experience. She offers steady, compassionate support for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, parenting strain, and other life changes. She describes therapy as a partnership where the client guides the goals and she helps navigate toward them.
Cindee centers conversations on what matters to each person. She listens without judgment and gives honest, direct feedback when it helps progress.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace that feels safe, and she encourages clients to test limits they’ve set for themselves. Her work often addresses trauma and abuse, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, and issues like hoarding and substance use. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Treatment choices draw on practical, evidence-informed methods to reduce symptoms and build coping skills. In session she blends mindful practices, acceptance strategies, and goal-focused tools to help people clarify values and act on them. She also uses techniques aimed at processing difficult memories when needed.
The approach is grounded, person-centered, and focused on what the client wants to change. Cindee mainly offers evenings and weekend times and checks messages at least twice daily. People who prefer a steady, encouraging guide who will speak plainly and help them make concrete changes may find her approach a good fit.
Practical approaches for online healing and growth
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, workable steps toward those values. It focuses on accepting difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to action that lines up with personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want concrete tools to try between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to the present moment and teaches simple practices for calming the body and noticing thoughts without getting swept away, which can help with anxiety and emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about problems, goals, and preferences and then recommend methods to try. This is a collaborative process - techniques can be adjusted over time to suit what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video offers a more traditional face-to-face conversation. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes or questions between sessions and can fit around busy days or caregiving schedules. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English