Cila Hintz, NCPS

Cila Hintz greets people with a calm, straightforward approach. She aims to help people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, addiction or low self-esteem. Cila works in English and Hungarian and has eight years of experience as a psychotherapist (NCPS).

Cila focuses on making sessions practical and easy to follow. She listens first, then suggests steps you can try between meetings. Conversations are clear and paced to suit the person sitting opposite her rather than rushed or full of jargon.

Her work covers a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, mood difficulties such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and problems with sleep or eating. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy-related issues, caregiving strain, and questions around identity and sexuality including LGBT concerns and alternative sex cultures such as BDSM and kink.

Cila uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs, drawing on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive and behavioural techniques, client-centred ways of building trust, dialectical skills for emotional regulation, and hypnotherapy where appropriate. She will outline a suggested plan and explain why certain methods might help.

Sessions are offered in several formats so people can choose what fits their life. Cila encourages small steps and clear goals, and she aims to make the process feel manageable from the first conversation.

How Cila’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small committed actions that can reduce avoidance and build a more meaningful day to day. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating problems. Client-Centred Therapy places emphasis on an empathetic, non-judgemental relationship so people feel heard and can explore painful topics at their own pace.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk through options, suggest what might suit your goals, and adjust methods as the work progresses. The aim is to find what feels useful rather than applying a fixed model from the start.

Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, journalling-style work, or times when typing fits a busy day. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping the focus on making steady progress.