About Hana
Hana Yin is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 16 years of clinical experience. She offers a calm, accepting presence and helps people facing anxiety, stress, relationship problems, trauma, and other life challenges. Sessions are conducted in English and Mandarin from Hawaii and she accepts international clients.
Her approach emphasizes practical skills and personal values. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice patterns and take workable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas guide work on intimacy, trust, and relating to others. Hana often helps people manage worry, sleeping problems, anger, and low self-esteem. She also supports those coping with ADHD, addiction concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and big life transitions.
She works with issues related to identity and LGBT experiences as well. In sessions she focuses on what a person wants their life to look like and on small changes that add up. Therapy can include talking, learning new skills, and trying out different ways to handle feelings and relationships.
The style is respectful and down-to-earth rather than overly technical. Clients who prefer different communication styles can choose phone sessions, video calls, live chat, or text messaging. Costs vary by location and are handled through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a session via the Start Therapy button.
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaches specific skills to change them. It is commonly used for worry, sleeping problems, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape emotional responses and helps people build safer, more connected ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hana will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person's needs. That collaborative process means adjustments as therapy progresses until a good fit is found.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, travel, or living in another country while still working with licensed professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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