Cynthia "Cindy" Chizewick
Focused, practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW, LISW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Cynthia
Cynthia "Cindy" Chizewick uses a collaborative, whole-person approach to help people regain a sense of control and wellbeing. She draws on practical therapies to address stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, parenting concerns, and life transitions. Cindy speaks plainly and works with clients to create doable steps rather than lengthy theory.
She brings 15 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker and independent social work supervisor in Ohio. Cindy combines techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with mindfulness and acceptance-based work.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete skills for coping with panic, sleep problems, substance use, and emotional overwhelm. She also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for people wrestling with disturbing memories. Motivational interviewing helps when clients want to change habits but feel stuck.
Her style is practical and team-oriented. Clients and Cindy set goals together and pick strategies that make sense for daily life. She pays attention to how stress, work, relationships, and identity factors like LGBT issues affect mood and functioning.
The aim is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. Cindy holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW and Licensed Independent Social Worker - LISW with licensure noted for Ohio and Arizona. She offers different session formats to fit varied schedules.
The focus remains on helping people clear obstacles that limit their ability to live the life they want. She encourages realistic steps toward improved sleep, reduced anxious thinking, healthier coping with loss, and better handling of anger or shame. Those who want practical, experienced guidance for life changes often appreciate her direct, supportive approach.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Cynthia often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT is useful for panic, sleep troubles, low mood, and clearing cycles of worry.She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, or ACT, which helps people notice difficult feelings and choose values-based actions anyway. ACT can help when someone feels stuck making changes or managing persistent stress.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences, and adjusts the plan as needed. That collaborative stance helps people try steps that feel realistic for their daily routines.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, parenting, or health care needs. Many people appreciate being able to follow through on skills between meetings using messaging or chat as a check-in tool.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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