Cynthia Hoffman, MFT

I spent several months in session here in earnest. Nothing of consequence was accomplished. I encourage anyone seeking serious reprehensible help to trust themselves or a more qualified professional in counsel. I can only speculate as to my demography or uniqueness/​severity in circumstance faulting any progress.

I highly recommend Cynthia Hoffman as a therapist and as a consultant to other mental health professionals. Her reputation in the field of substance misuse and harm reduction is well-​established, and I’ve been referring clients to her with confidence for her harm reduction groups. I recently participated in a six-​week consultation series with her. This was very illuminating for me professionally, but it also gave me a first-​hand window into her style as a therapist. One of the qualities that stands out the most is that she is truly nonjudgmental. It is a deceptively challenging and important skill to know how to work with others in a way that is sincerely engaged and caring, but distinctly unattached to specific outcomes that might be driven by the therapist’s own needs or values. Cynthia knows how to meet her clients wherever they are, and she lets them hold the ultimate responsibility for their own goals and choices.

I know Cynthia as a colleague. She has a calm and understanding demeanor. I truly feel confident sending people who have questions and concerns about their substance use or abuse. Cynthia is direct and kind. She is not holding expectations and judgments of someone else’s experience, which allows others to explore issues with substances use. I highly recommend her groups for talking about drug and alcohol harm reduction.

I’ve referred clients who wanted a different approach to alcohol and drug problems to Cynthia’a groups for several years and their experience was uniformly excellent. She does a thorough assessment of client’s readiness and appropriateness for the ‘harm reduction’ groups and treats each person with compassion, warmth and a gentle clarity regarding her perceptions, that seems to connect with a wide variety of clients. I have no hesitation recommending Cynthia highly.

Cynthia is a great therapist. My partner and I saw her for couples counseling both early in our relationship and, years later, at a different juncture. Initially she helped us learn about tools for healthy communication, and would often give «homework» to play with during the week. We learned that neither one of us was favored, which made it easier to drop any notions of triangulating. She would also remind us of what is important when we’d get too wrapped up in details, and help us name our own story when we were too busy speculating about each other. The bottom line is, Cynthia is respectful, heartful, witty and experienced. Highest recommendations.