About Chana
Chana Rivka Hersh helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, grief, depression, addictions, and a wide range of life challenges. She works with issues such as parenting strain, intimacy problems, sleep and eating concerns, ADHD, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Chana is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas and brings 25 years of clinical experience to her work.
Her style is warm and person-centered. She starts by listening and by building trust.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what the person wants to change and practical steps toward those goals. Chana uses a mix of approaches to meet each person where they are. She draws on attachment-based ideas to understand close relationships, and cognitive-behavioral techniques to change thoughts and habits.
Dialectical skills and existential questions are added when they fit the goals. Her background includes long-term work with people who experienced severe mental illness and later a focus on survivors of abuse and neglect. She has also supported people coping with chronic pain, substance concerns, eating disorders, and suicidal thoughts.
That breadth informs how she plans treatment and supports safety and stability. In sessions clients can expect clear goal-setting and a practical roadmap. Chana describes progress in terms of small, measurable steps people can take between meetings.
She partners with each person to adjust the plan as needs change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Chana commonly draws on attachment-based methods and cognitive-behavioral techniques to guide online work. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people rebuild trust and closeness. Cognitive-behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and habit-driven problems.She treats therapy as a team effort. Finding the right approach is part of the process, and she will help weigh options based on a person’s needs, goals, and comfort. Together they choose which techniques to emphasize and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people do shorter check-ins, share thoughts between sessions, or fit counseling into a busy day.
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What this counselor 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