About Eva
Eva Hoffman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care for adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and major life changes. She uses clear, straightforward talk and down-to-earth tools to help people manage symptoms and make steady progress toward daily goals. Her approach begins with listening.
She asks what matters most and what feels hardest right now. Sessions focus on concrete steps to reduce distress, build coping skills, and address patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Eva blends client-centered work with practical strategies so people leave sessions with something to try. Over five years she has helped people dealing with family-related concerns, caregiver strain, chronic illness, body image struggles, and the effects of abuse or loss. She also supports clients facing issues tied to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric challenges, divorce, and eating or food-related concerns.
Her background includes work across these areas in New York. Eva uses a mix of methods depending on the person’s goals. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, motivational interviewing to build drive for change, and psychodynamic ideas to understand repeated patterns.
Sessions are shaped around what a person prefers and needs right now. People who choose Eva can expect straightforward guidance, practical homework, and a calm space to talk through hard things. She aims to help clients find clearer options, stronger coping, and more balanced days.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what each person brings. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects concerns, and helps people identify their own goals and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches clear techniques to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or low mood. Motivational Interviewing helps people resolve mixed feelings about change by highlighting personal values and building small, doable steps toward goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and together they will try methods that feel most useful. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact when a longer session is needed. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera helps concentration. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or step-by-step tasks between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work days, caregiving schedules, or other routines while staying focused on practical progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English