Cindee Oswald, LCSW

California · 11 years in practice

Cindee Oswald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments.

License and registration

LCSW, California: 79762 · expires August 2027
NPI: 1760805295 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 11
Languages: English

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About Cindee

Cindee Oswald is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She works from California and focuses on creating a respectful space where clients can tell their story and explore change. Cindee uses straightforward, person-centered care.

She listens first, then helps clients set realistic goals. She keeps feedback honest while staying warm and nonjudgmental. Sessions move at a pace that feels emotionally safe for each person.

Background and approach

Her background includes work with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, substance use concerns, grief, and parenting strain. She also supports people dealing with identity and LGBT concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Hoarding is an additional focus area she addresses.

Cindee draws from practical approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, client-centered methods and EMDR. She uses these tools to help people change unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and process difficult memories. In sessions she aims to deepen a client's sense of connection with themselves.

She offers guidance, encouragement, and clear next steps. The work is collaborative - the client sets goals and Cindee helps navigate toward them. People can expect evening and weekend availability for many appointments, and routine message checks during the day.

Her schedule and subscription-based session options are set through the platform's matching and booking process.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Cindee lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Addictions
LGBT
Trauma and abuse
Self esteem
Relationship issues
Family conflicts
Grief
Eating disorders
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Depression
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Hoarding

Approaches Cindee names

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Online support

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match those values while learning ways to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. EMDR involves a structured process for processing painful memories and reducing their hold on daily life; it is often used when trauma is part of what someone brings to therapy.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to worries, goals, and preferences and then suggest options that fit. Together they will try methods, track what helps, and adjust the plan based on real progress and comfort.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and visual connection. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching easier to fit into a busy day. These options make it simpler to schedule care around evening and weekend routines.

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Questions people ask

What issues does she commonly help with?

She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting concerns, self-esteem and relationship issues, and hoarding among other concerns.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is person-centered and direct. She listens first, offers honest feedback, and works at a pace that feels safe for each client.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has 11 years of experience as a social worker and practices as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?

She practices from California and holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Can sessions be conducted in other languages or internationally?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.

Which session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for online work.

How does cost work for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin therapy?

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