Cindy Tang, AMFT (#147830)
Relational and Trauma-Conscious Psychotherapist
The human experience is complex. Therapy offers a safe and supportive space to explore our stories, values, and identities, helping us find meaning and strength. Cindy partners with clients to pursue their goals while fostering healing and self-compassion.
Before joining MACS, Cindy worked in school and community mental health settings, supporting children, families, and adults with developmental, social, and emotional challenges.
She draws from a broad range of therapeutic approaches—including Narrative, Somatic, Psychodynamic, Attachment, and Cognitive-Behavioral methods—to support children, adults, couples, and families.
With children, Cindy helps them navigate trauma, anxiety, family transitions, and developmental stressors, building resilience and a greater sense of security.
Cindy works under the supervision of Ken Mallon, LMFT (#133288), and offers a free 15-minute consultation. She currently has openings for new clients.
“When we don’t run away from our suffering, but we recognize it, embrace it, and look deeply into it, suffering begins to transform, and liberation and enlightenment manifest.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
Child Therapy
During times of stress or transition, the healing power of play is often overlooked. Therapy can help both children and parents reconnect and feel more present. Through play and art therapy, children can safely process experiences, learn, and grow.
Cindy has four areas of expertise in child therapy, primarily with children ages 5–11 years old:
- Sensory play (like Kinetic Sand Tray Therapy) to support emotion regulation and non-verbal expression.
- Strengthening the parent-child relationship through attunement.
- Building self-esteem and agency with child-led play .
- Helping children manage stress of separation or divorce, fostering security and resilience .
Divorce-related support can be integrated with co-parenting work at MACS or with other clinicians. .
Individual Therapy
Asking for support and help during a time of crisis, change, and transition can feel overwhelming, but therapy serves as a reminder that you do not have to endure difficulties alone. Our emotions serve as pieces of information that we can use to empower ourselves in making intentional and aligned decisions for a life that we envision for ourselves.
Cindy brings a culturally-sensitive, compassionate, and collaborative approach when working with individuals. As a second-generation Taiwanese American, Cindy has life experience with balancing bi-cultural identities, neurodivergence in a neurotypical society, and intergenerational trauma.
Cindy works with individuals through a Narrative, Cognitive-Behavioral, Attachment, Psychodynamic, Trauma, and Somatic lens, observing the stories that are shared about their lives, physical bodily sensations that arise, thoughts and behaviors that influence interactions with others, and trauma history that appears in the present.
Couples & Families
It can be difficult to express our deepest emotions to the ones we love and care for deeply. Our own complex past, behaviors, and patterns may be unconsciously driving our behaviors in the relationship, partnership, or family unit. We are also often dealing with gendered, cultural, hierarchical, or political roles and expectations that are placed on us and dominate our narratives.
Cindy primarily works from an Emotionally-Focused, Relational, and Narrative theoretical lens with couples and families. She works to increase mutual empathy, insight, and trust for each other in relationships.
She specializes in helping partners and families cope when one member is sick or ill, facing immigration challenges, intergenerational trauma, cultural pressure, and triangulation/identified patients.