Anthony "T.J" Cedeno

Anthony "T.J" Cedeno is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) in Massachusetts with seven years of professional experience. He helps people who feel stuck by addressing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and difficulties that come with life changes. He also supports people managing attention and focus concerns such as ADHD.

T.J. has spent a decade working closely with people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. That background informs how he listens and how he structures sessions for clearer thinking and better daily function. He focuses on concrete skills for concentration, memory, motivation, and managing worry.

In sessions he treats each person as the expert on their own life. He uses that perspective to build on existing strengths and to test small changes that can improve routines and mood. Conversations are practical and aim to produce usable steps between meetings.

He also works with concerns that often come alongside anxiety and low self-worth - social anxiety, panic symptoms, obsessions and compulsions, and relationship problems like communication and jealousy. Chronic health conditions and pain are part of his experience too, especially when they affect daily coping.

T.J. describes therapy as a collaborative effort. He combines his experience supporting people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with seven years of clinical practice to help clients sort priorities, try new approaches, and track what helps over time.

Approaches he uses and how online work fits

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing unhelpful thinking and building practical skills. Cognitive approaches help identify thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low self-esteem and teach concrete ways to test and change those patterns. Behavioral strategies concentrate on small, repeatable actions to improve focus, daily routines, motivation, and mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals, try an approach for a few sessions, and adjust methods based on what helps. Clients and therapist decide collaboratively which techniques to keep and which to change.

The profile does not specify session formats, so please confirm the current online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also let people choose sessions that better match their energy levels that day, such as a focused phone check-in or a longer video conversation if that option is offered. Licensed professionals can help adapt exercises and homework so they work between sessions in real life.