Cindy Bridgman, LCSW

Cindy has been working professionally with children and families since 1996. She specializes in helping children who have experienced sexual abuse, severe physical abuse, neglect and abandonment. In this role she finds joy in walking with the child and family through the healing process. “There are few things more fulfilling than witnessing a child and family grow stronger after experiencing such a devastating blow.”

Cindy has provided therapy to hundreds of children who have experienced the trauma of abuse, as well as provided therapeutic supervision for more than a thousand children served by other clinicians. She has testified as an expert more than 150 times in criminal, family, and military courts throughout the United States. Cindy has also served as a forensic interviewer for children suspected to be victims of abuse. She has made more than 300 presentations over the years both locally and at national conferences on topics directly connected to child abuse and prevention of abuse.

A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, Cindy continues her support by serving as a member of the School of Social Work’s Alumni Board of Governors. She obtained her undergraduate degree in social work from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. Cindy is a member of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). She is licensed as a Clinical Social Worker in both Michigan and Washington D.C.

Cindy has provided therapy to many children in her career, working at the YWCA of Greater Flint, CARE House of Oakland County, Hope Counseling Center in Fairbanks, Alaska, and Safe Shores – The DC Children’s Advocacy Center. Her husband currently pastors Crystal Springs Church of God in Benton Harbor, Michigan where she is active in a variety of roles.