Testimonials
Prior to starting my therapy journey, I was doubtful of its efficacy and hesitant to share my most personal struggles with a stranger. However, those doubts quickly disappeared once I met Cina. Her warm presence and empathetic approach made me feel safe and supported as I navigated the impacts of loss and childhood trauma. Through her guidance and deep mastery of her practice, I have learned to love and support myself unconditionally, develop greater emotional resilience, and connect with myself on a deeper level. I can confidently say that working with Cina has profoundly impacted every aspect of my life, and I will forever be grateful for the tools and insights she has taught me. Setting up my first appointment was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
Prior to starting my therapy journey, I was doubtful of its efficacy and hesitant to share my most personal struggles with a stranger. However, those doubts quickly disappeared once I met Cina. Her warm presence and empathetic approach made me feel safe and supported as I navigated the impacts of loss and childhood trauma. Through her guidance and deep mastery of her practice, I have learned to love and support myself unconditionally, develop greater emotional resilience, and connect with myself on a deeper level. I can confidently say that working with Cina has profoundly impacted every aspect of my life, and I will forever be grateful for the tools and insights she has taught me. Setting up my first appointment was one of the best decisions I have ever made.
Cina is equal parts encouraging, caring, accepting, and real. She is empathetic while working towards tangible solutions – consistently pushing me to become a better version of myself. Cina has helped me work through insecurities around romantic relationships, body image, and (as cheesy as it may sound) helped me connect with and heal my inner child. She has taught me to enjoy the ride, embrace intuition, move through growth even when it’s challenging, and wholeheartedly go after the best things in life.
Working with Cina has been transformative in my journey of personal growth. She provided me with practical tools and strategies to navigate challenging circumstances, while creating a genuinely supportive and empathetic environment. Her guidance helped me develop a healthier relationship with myself and others, turning difficult moments into opportunities for growth.
What sets her apart is her ability to balance compassionate understanding with actionable solutions. The coping techniques and practices she taught me continue to serve me well in my daily life. Her steady presence and professional expertise made me feel truly heard and supported throughout our work together.
Through our sessions, I gained invaluable insights and practical skills that have made a lasting positive impact on my well-being. I’m grateful for her role in helping me build a stronger foundation for personal growth and emotional resilience.
I have worked with several different therapists in my 20+ years of going to therapy and Cina has by far been the best therapist I have ever worked with. I believe her approach to doing inner child work, energy healing and shadow work was what works best for me. She offers a very spiritual approach which I think most people would find therapeutic in itself. Cina is very detail oriented, patient, and caring therapist. I believe I wouldn’t be where I am in my healing journey if it wasn’t for the inner work I did with her as my therapist. I highly recommend her as a therapist as it has changed my life for the better.
Therapy with Cina helped me have such a big improvement in my ability to manage my thoughts, emotions, and challenges in everyday life. Her nonjudgmental approach makes it easy for anyone to open up, and I truly appreciate how she creates a safe space for me to express myself. She listens so attentively and provides tools that have helped me better navigate anxiety and stress.
When I first started seeing Cina I lived in a world inside my head where I constantly resonated and obsessed over thoughts in my head. She taught me the importance of mindfulness and practices to help me get there. She taught me the ability to exit the thoughts in my head and focus on what I can control. I am now able to process my emotions better, set healthy boundaries, and live a happier life. I am truly thankful for Cina and all she has done to help me!
I highly recommend Cina’s professional counseling services. I began services with Cina to work on ‘mindful eating/mindfulness’ and manage my emotional eating. Much of the work I needed to do stemmed from grief and the consequences and result of a very painful, contentious divorce, an abusive spouse, death of a parent due to alcoholism, child’s major surgery and unresolved trauma issues as a child of divorce and abandonment. As a professional, career single mom I worked hard to put my family back together and support my children through their pain and healing but did not make enough time for self care. During my marriage I tried marriage counseling and then personal counseling. Many of the counselors I worked with were helpful but with all the ‘work’ and ‘healing’ things were just never quite resolved resulting in ‘weight’ I continued to pack on and carry on my body like a security blanket. Cina’s services have proven to be a success story for me. My goal was to be my holistic, healthiest, most confident self. Cina employs extremely effective methods during her counseling sessions that really worked for me. I always felt the sessions were ‘action’ oriented. I left each session feeling like I could explore my behaviors, understand the why’s, have concrete methods for helping myself between sessions and have a ‘toolbox’ of resources to draw upon during setbacks. We discussed session goals and planned for next session goals. Finally, after some time, I was able to conclude my counseling sessions with the ability to set up ‘as needed’ sessions. Today, I feel confident, strong, holistically healthy, resilient and am living my best life and on my way to being my healthiest self with the collateral result of being down 60 lbs. I am so grateful to Cina for sharing her amazing wisdom, professionalism, intellect, trust, and extreme talents in the area of psychology to create a safe space, provide guidance, and effective methods to support through the healing process. Cina has a very calm demeanor and intuitively customizes and identifies the methods that are most specific to support ‘your’ healing. Cina is a true ‘healer’ and the world is a better place for the amazing counseling services she has to offer.
After suffering through several years of cycling between obsessive/restrictive eating and binging, I was tired, depressed, and hopeless. Before I met Cina, I was someone who valued my appearance over everything and had an endless loop of thoughts about when my next meal would be and how many calories it would contain. After working with Cina, I can honestly say that I have never felt more confident in my body and have never cared less about the revolving obsession I once had with food and with maintaining my own personal “perfect” image. Cina has not only helped me to heal my relationship with food, but also with life, and for that I could not be more grateful!
I found Cina at time when I was newly retired and became an empty nester after raising 4 children as a single mom. Depressed and unfocused she led me to create a new normal for myself. I began volunteering, signed up for college classes and adopted a dog. My life is full and happy. If ever there was a person who was born to be a therapist.. it is Cina. She is the perfect combination of genuine empathy, insightful guidance and the ability to challenge her patients in a positive and constructive way. I would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking therapy.
Cina Hoey was my therapist for a year or longer. I came to her at a time when I was attempting to adjust to many life changes. My younger brother had died suddenly, and I was trying to cope with some newly diagnosed medical problems, one of which was causing me a great deal of physical pain.
Cina utilizes multiple therapeutic modalities and the work we did together was nothing less than life changing. She helped me get my life back on track and I was able to develop better & stronger coping mechanisms in order to face new challenges. I owe her a lot. Today I am a happier & healthier version of myself.
Please consider this to be a wholehearted endorsement of Cina Hoey as a psychotherapist. She is well educated & trained, polished & professional, and well equipped to help you.
Cina is hands down the best, most intuitive therapist that I’ve ever worked with. I am very spiritual, and Cina offered a unique and beautiful spiritual approach that helped me through the loss of my father. She understands the grief process deeply and I don’t know what I would have done without her during that incredibly difficult time. Cina helped me evolve to a place where I no longer need her services, but I still miss speaking with her every week!
Working with Cina over the past three years has been truly life-changing. I came to her with severe anxiety, and low self-worth (among other things). Throughout our journey, she’s given me invaluable tools that have increased my sense of self and freed me from crippling anxiety.
She is not an idle therapist, she shows up for her clients. Her ability to challenge me while also making me feel supported was a unique skill and I always trusted her intentions of guiding me to expansion. Cina held a safe space for me to become, to question, and to pave a path for myself that I am more empowered by and confident in. I am forever grateful for the work Cina has guided me through.
Cina was a pivotal piece in my sober and mental health journey. She has helped me transform in such a way, even my friends and family mention it. Cina‘s knowledge and guidance has helped me to completely transform my life. She has helped me through some very dark moments and thoughts. I never once felt, judged only heard. I truly believe everyone needs a Cina in their life!
When I first started working with Cina, I was overwhelmed with emotions and didn’t know how to cope. Through our sessions, we gradually broke down my defenses, allowing me to be vulnerable with her and myself. This vulnerability enabled us to explore my traumas and emotions, helping us understand and work with them rather than against them. Cina’s guidance has given me a deeper understanding of myself, improved my self-relationship, and fostered greater self-love and compassion.
Cina showed me where to look so I could see. When I finally saw, she showed me the next place to look. When I struggle, Cina holds the space for my success. She always sees my strength and my potential, even when (and especially when) I don’t.
I don’t think I would be where I am without her guidance, patience, and support. I am truly grateful.
Cina is a dream therapist. I had never gone to therapy before, and I started sessions with Cina after a traumatic loss in my family; four and a half years and so much healing later, she is still my go-to. She is super intuitive and experienced in different modalities and has always brought tools and ideas to the table that have helped me process and understand what I’m going through. I trust her not only to give me the grace, compassion, and tools I need to heal through hard things, but also to call me out on my shit and hold me accountable when I’m not acting like my best self. I cannot recommend her enough.
Working with Cina has been the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life. Through our years together she has allowed me the mental tools to propel my life forward with a foundation of complete self-love. Her patience, trust in me, and positive reinforcement of what we’ve worked on has given me the confidence to make the changes I need to live the life I want to live. Without her I wouldn’t be who I am, and because of Cina I can say I really love who that is.
I didn’t even know that what I was struggling with for so many years was binge eating. I just thought I “ate too much” in general and didn’t associate it with my mental health or with early messages from my childhood that complicated my relationship with food specifically and with safety/nurturing in general.
I don’t know if I would’ve taken action on this with Cina had it not been for the fact that I found myself sneaking food when no one was looking, going to the grocery store or ordering takeout at odd hours of the night and eating far more than I needed to satisfy pure hunger, and being less productive at work.
Cina was the first professional I’ve worked with who was actually able to identify my behavior as binge eating – as something other women struggle with, as something that didn’t make me crazy or abnormal. This was a game changer – through conversations with Cina, I began to understand not only that I do this, but more importantly, WHY I do it. What prompts it, what makes it better, what re-triggers it.
I’m grateful for the work with Cina – which is ongoing – because I’ve re-thought my relationship to food and formed a better understanding of deprivation and need. I’ve learned to listen closely to my body and my emotions without making anything that I feel “wrong.” Lowering (eventually eliminating) self-judgment, I know now, will be the key to conquering this.
Thank you for everything, Cina!
From 15-21, my weight yo-yoed as fast as I lost pounds through countless fad diets, going vegan, bulimia, working out excessively, and starving myself, I gained it right back by bingeing. This cycle led me to constant calorie counting and depriving myself of food. Cina helped me discover new ways of nurturing my body. Through these methods, I can say that I’ve found my weight set point, so no more weekly scale checks or feeling guilty for consuming calories without burning it off! How I look at food has changed the way I look at my body as well. This is the most comfortable I’ve ever felt in my own skin. I am so grateful that Cina has helped me rewire my eating habits; it has benefitted my mind and body!