Cindy Tenaglia, LCSW

Cindy Tenaglia is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing outside Philadelphia in Pennsylvania with 18 years of clinical experience. She has supported individuals, couples, and families across both in-patient and out-patient settings, addressing a wide range of mental health and life concerns from anxiety and depression to relationship and family issues.

Before earning her degree and training at the Bryn Mawr School of Social Work, she lived in an intentional community on 130 acres in Wisconsin, an experience that deepened her interest in collaboration and communication. Those values continue to shape her work, which emphasizes practical solutions and client-driven growth. Her approach is warm and empathic, and she tailors interventions to each person or family she works with.

As a practitioner she draws primarily on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy - often called ACT - to help clients increase psychological flexibility and align actions with personal values. She uses the ACT Matrix as a collaborative tool to explore what matters to clients and how to move toward a more valued life. Additional approaches informing her work include client-centered therapy, mindfulness therapy, and solution-focused therapy. She also brings a strong commitment to self-directed learning, informed in part by nine years of homeschooling her son and daughter, and integrates that philosophy into coaching and therapeutic work to promote lasting change.