Cindee Oswald, LCSW

Cindee Oswald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction issues, and life transitions. She practices from California and aims to create a warm, straightforward space where clients feel heard and guided. Cindee keeps sessions focused on what the client wants to change and moves at a pace that feels safe.

Her background includes work with people facing trauma, depression, LGBTQ concerns, parenting challenges, and grief. She also supports those dealing with eating or sleeping problems, hoarding, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice blends practical skills with emotional support so clients can try new behaviors between sessions.

Cindee uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy alongside client-centered and mindfulness approaches. She may also use EMDR when trauma processing is appropriate. These methods are chosen to match each person’s goals rather than to follow a single formula.

Her style is nurturing and nonjudgmental, with honest feedback when it helps someone move forward. She encourages people to set their own goals and stays alongside them as they practice new ways of coping. The therapist describes her role as a navigator while the client stays in the driver seat.

Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging and are scheduled to fit people’s lives. Cindee typically checks messages twice daily and aims to respond within 24 hours. If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through a short matching questionnaire and scheduling process.

How therapy approaches translate online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. Online CBT focuses on skills you can practice between sessions to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches methods to accept difficult feelings and take action toward values. ACT can help with motivation, grief, and coping with life changes by encouraging committed steps aligned with what matters most.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and then suggest which methods to try first. Together they adjust the plan over time so the work fits the person’s life and pace.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit sessions into evenings or weekends and to keep momentum between meetings.