Cindy Tenaglia

Cindy Tenaglia is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Pennsylvania. She brings 18 years of experience helping people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or struggling with self-esteem and life changes. Cindy also works with concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, and eating and food-related issues.

Her approach centers on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, paired with client-centered and mindfulness techniques. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use to reduce struggle and move toward valued living. She uses the ACT Matrix as a simple tool to help clients notice patterns and choose different actions.

Cindy has worked in both inpatient and outpatient settings and has supported people through a wide range of mental health and life challenges. She describes her style as warm and empathic, and she adapts her work to each person's needs. She also offers coaching alongside therapy when that fits a person's goals.

Cindy values collaboration and self-directed learning. She has personal experience homeschooling her children, and she brings that practical, educational mindset into sessions. That often means setting small, doable steps and building skills over time.

People who choose her work together to clarify what matters, reduce unhelpful struggle, and take actions that align with their values. She helps clients build awareness and flexibility so they can face stress, grief, mood concerns, and relationship or eating-related patterns with clearer choices.

How ACT and Mindfulness Translate to Online Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful patterns and choose actions that align with their values. It often uses simple exercises and the ACT Matrix to map thoughts, feelings, and actions so people can try new behaviors.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and build breathing room around strong emotions. It can help with anxiety, stress, grief, and ongoing mood concerns by training attention and presence.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cindy will collaborate with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals and preferences. That can mean mixing ACT, mindfulness, and client-centered conversation to match what the person needs in the moment.

Because session formats are not specified here, confirm the current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten travel time, and allow check-ins when a full in-person visit is harder to arrange. It also makes it possible to continue steady work on coping skills and values-based actions across weeks or months without changing the therapeutic aims.