About Hana
Hana Kuc is a licensed mental health counselor working in New York with 15 years of clinical experience. She holds LMHC and LPCC credentials and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and trauma. Her tone is practical and steady, aimed at people who want clear steps forward.
Her approach emphasizes facing fears gradually and with care. She encourages small, manageable steps so people can build confidence without feeling overwhelmed.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying the core fears or patterns that lead to procrastination, overwork, or self-blame and then testing new ways of responding. Hana uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral methods and EMDR alongside motivational interviewing to support change. She helps clarify goals, strengthen motivation, and shift unhelpful beliefs that keep someone stuck.
The work is collaborative - she and the client track progress and adjust methods as needed. Common issues she addresses include addiction and substance concerns, trauma and post-traumatic stress, panic and obsessive-compulsive patterns, social anxiety, and mood difficulties. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, and career transitions.
Sessions are offered in English, Czech, and Slovak. Hana aims to help people move from being overwhelmed to having practical tools they can use day to day. Her style is direct, compassionate, and focused on measurable change.
How Hana's Approaches Work Online
Hana draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT focuses on clear, practical exercises you can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, panic, and mood symptoms.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, which helps people process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity. EMDR can be useful for post-traumatic stress, panic, and persistent distress from past events.
Motivational interviewing is part of her toolkit for addiction and behavior change. This method helps clarify a person's reasons for change, strengthen motivation, and set realistic next steps without pressure.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those needs, and adjust based on what helps. That collaborative planning helps people feel involved in their progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a full session that resembles an in-person visit. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep continuity when travel or work makes in-person visits hard.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English, Czech, Slovak