About Cindy
Cindy Tenaglia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Pennsylvania who uses practical, values-focused methods to help people cope with life’s challenges. She draws on 18 years of experience to guide people through stress, anxiety, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and changes at work or home.
Her approach is warm and down-to-earth, with short-term coaching options and longer therapeutic work available depending on the person’s needs. Her primary work centers on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), combined with client-centered and mindfulness practices.
Background and approach
She helps people notice what matters to them, reduce unhelpful struggles, and take small steps toward a more valued life. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to each person’s pace and goals. Cindy has supported people facing mood concerns like depression and bipolar, attention and focus difficulties such as ADHD, and complex issues like caregiving stress, chronic illness, and family of origin problems.
She also addresses eating and body-related concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue for caregivers and helping professionals. She brings a practical coaching lens to therapy, emphasizing clear goals and doable actions. Communication skills, boundary work, and forgiveness are common themes in her sessions.
Her background includes inpatient and outpatient settings and a focus on helping people build skills they can use day to day. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Cindy works with each person to choose the format and pace that fit their life and goals.
Using ACT and Mindfulness in Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values. It focuses on reducing the struggle with thoughts and feelings so people can spend more time on meaningful activities. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve awareness in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals, try different tools, and adjust the plan together. This collaborative process helps match methods like ACT and mindfulness to what actually helps the individual move forward.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial cues and do exercises together, phone calls can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is low, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and other commitments while keeping therapy practical and focused.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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