Cynthia "Cindy" Chizewick, LCSW, LISW

Cynthia "Cindy" Chizewick uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people regain a sense of direction in life. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with 15 years of experience. Cindy speaks plainly and focuses on concrete steps people can try between sessions to feel more in control.

Her work centers on everyday problems like anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, and sleep disruption. She also supports people facing big life shifts such as job loss, caregiving strain, parenting challenges, and midlife crisis. Cindy pays attention to how relationships, work, and past hurts affect daily life and decision making.

In sessions she blends several methods so the plan fits each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy help people notice their experience and choose actions that match their values. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing can be used when past events keep getting in the way of moving forward.

Cindy emphasizes teamwork. She and the client set clear goals, try practical skills, and track what helps. Her approach favors short, doable experiments and steady progress rather than one-size-fits-all solutions.

She brings experience supporting people with addictions, trauma and abuse, ADHD, grief, and caregiver or first responder stress. People often come to her wanting to rebuild purpose, manage emotions, and move toward a more manageable everyday life.

How Cynthia’s approaches work in online therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a hands-on method that helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with life transitions and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches, and adjust based on what is working. This is a collaborative process where the client’s preferences and everyday life guide decisions about methods and pace.

Confirm the current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and let people meet from different locations within the same state. Licensed professionals can tailor session length and focus to match each person’s needs and help apply skills between meetings.