About Corey
Corey Hinson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing relationship strain, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life changes. She talks with clients about parenting stresses, intimacy concerns, career uncertainty, and family conflict so they can find clearer next steps. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical progress rather than jargon.
Corey listens to understand each person’s story and what matters most to them. She asks straightforward questions to identify patterns and the roots of current problems.
Background and approach
Together with the client she maps out small, doable changes and skills to try between sessions. Her work draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses emotionally-focused ideas to address connection and attachment concerns, and motivational interviewing to help people facing addiction or ambivalence about change.
Mindfulness practices are used to reduce stress and increase awareness of moment-to-moment experience. With 12 years of experience, Corey brings practical tools and steady support. She helps people work through issues like codependency, blended family challenges, communication breakdowns, control struggles, and guilt or shame.
She also addresses trauma, domestic violence, and substance use when those topics arise in sessions. Corey holds an LCSW credential in North Carolina and offers sessions in English. Her approach is collaborative: she adapts methods to fit each person’s goals and life circumstances.
If someone wants clear guidance and an action-oriented plan, she helps them move toward better functioning and greater clarity.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and find their own solutions to problems like relationship strain or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow. It is practical and skill-driven, useful for anxiety, depression, and changing patterns that keep someone stuck.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how people connect and respond emotionally in close relationships. It can help address attachment worries, intimacy problems, and recurring conflict by shifting how people relate to each other.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Corey will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility that many people need. Video calls let therapists and clients work face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let someone check in between appointments or use written reflection when that feels most comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between visits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English