About Hannah
Hannah Bernard is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who supports adults facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, and big life changes. She works through telehealth with people across the state and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Hannah speaks plainly and aims to help people feel more in control and understood.
She draws on a flexible mix of approaches to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often include learning concrete skills, trying new ways to manage difficult thoughts, and practicing mindful awareness to reduce overwhelm. Hannah also uses motivational techniques to help people find momentum when change feels hard. Hannah has three years of clinical experience.
In that time she has helped people cope with medical challenges, caregiver stress, chronic pain or illness, grief, fertility and hospice related concerns, and the frustration of family communication problems. She also supports people who feel isolated or stuck while they rethink life purpose or face aging concerns. Her style is calm and nonjudgmental.
She emphasizes collaboration and invites clients to take an active role in shaping goals and strategies. Conversations focus on what is useful right now and what small experiments might lead to clearer choices. Therapy with Hannah typically includes practical tools, short-term strategies, and work on building self-trust.
She aims to help people make decisions they can be proud of and to strengthen the inner resources that help daily life feel more manageable.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation around the person's needs and goals, with the therapist reflecting what matters most and helping people arrive at their own decisions. This approach supports trust and helps people explore values and personal strengths during remote sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or low mood. It works well online because homework, thought records, and brief experiments can be assigned between sessions and reviewed over video or messaging.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness. These brief practices can be coached in a call and practiced throughout the week to ease stress and improve sleep.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hannah will collaborate with each person to choose methods that suit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans when something isn’t working, so therapy evolves with the client.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow more flexibility for busy schedules. Video is useful for deeper conversation and practice, phone calls can fit a break at work, and messaging supports short check-ins or ongoing reminders. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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