Cindie Moyer, M.A.

Individuals · Couples · Families · Adolescents · Young Adults · Adults · Older adults

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
License No: MFC 35560

About My Practice

Feeling overwhelmed or stuck, constantly doubting yourself, longing for closeness but feeling scared about really opening up to someone else, falling into eating disorders or other addictions to dull anxiety, feeling that you’re not where you want to be at this point in your life . . . If you feel this way, you are not alone: these are the issues that bring people to my office every day.

As a therapist, I offer a safe place to explore your concerns in a confidential setting. My approach is warm, accepting, inquisitive, and playful. It can be difficult to break through the barriers we put up for ourselves. Yet when we feel truly heard and understood, the inner walls dissolve naturally. As we talk together about what’s going on in your life, we will begin to understand what is really bothering you.

As you begin to recognize that you are not alone, that yours is a common experience, you begin to feel more of a connection to the world, opening to a sense of aliveness and new possibilities for what your life can be.

Professional Interests:

• Understanding and alleviating longstanding anxiety and depression, and discovering your ability to bounce back from difficult situations, develop more self-assertiveness, and find inner strength you never knew you possessed
• Improving relationships (individuals or couples): Identifying vulnerability, longings, and fears underlying repetitive conflict, letting go of resentments, and turning impasses into opportunities to develop a renewed sense of connection
• Recovery from addiction, surviving an addicted family system
• Recognizing and working through the impact of abuse or losses can develop compassion and self-acceptance
• Transitions such as a relationship ending, job difficulties, going to school, shifting identity can be life changing with support and insight

Education:

• M.A. Clinical Psychology, John F. Kennedy University, Orinda, CA, l995
• Currently a Supervisor of therapists-in-training at the Pacific Center in Berkeley

Experience / Training:

Over 25 years experience as a mental health professional, working as a counselor, social worker and therapist; psychotherapy private practice since 1994. I broadened my skills as a therapist in an intensive two-year training in relational psychotherapy at The Psychotherapy Institute in Berkeley.

Professional Affiliations / Activities

• Member and graduate of The Psychotherapy Institute, Berkeley
• California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists