About Chana
Chana Rivka Hersh is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, relationship problems, and other life challenges. She brings 25 years of counseling experience and a focus on practical steps toward clearer goals. Her first priority is to listen.
Early sessions focus on getting to know the person and what they want to change. She uses a person-centered way of working to build trust and make space for honest conversation.
Background and approach
After identifying goals, she draws on a mix of approaches to help people move forward. Techniques may include cognitive-behavioral methods to shift unhelpful thinking, attachment-based ideas to improve relationships, and existential themes to address meaning and values. The exact mix depends on what the client needs and prefers.
Her background includes long-term work with people coming out of institutional care and with survivors of abuse and neglect. She has experience addressing depression, phobias, post-traumatic stress, substance concerns, eating issues, chronic pain, and complicated family dynamics. Sessions focus on clear outcomes and practical tools.
Clients set agreed-upon goals and build a roadmap together. The aim is steady progress so people feel more capable and more satisfied with their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Chana often uses attachment-based ideas to help people understand how early relationship patterns affect current relationships. This approach helps when trust, closeness, or abandonment worries get in the way of connection. She also uses client-centered techniques that prioritize listening and following the person's lead, which helps people feel heard and understood as they identify goals and next steps. Cognitive-behavioral therapy is another common tool she uses to spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and many daily struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She discusses options with each person and chooses methods together based on goals, comfort, and what feels most helpful. That collaborative process allows adjustments over time so the plan stays aligned with changing needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, ongoing support between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives and to continue work from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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