About Hannah
Hannah Thayer is a California-licensed counselor with five years of professional experience as an LPCC. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, and issues tied to self-esteem and motivation. Hannah aims to make the first step feel manageable and to stand alongside people as they work toward a more fulfilling life.
Her approach centers on openness and nonjudgmental listening. Sessions are meant to be a place where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about honestly.
Background and approach
Hannah draws on therapies that help people notice their values, change unhelpful thinking, and build coping skills. In practice she blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to tackle anxious or depressive patterns. Mindfulness techniques are used to increase present-moment awareness and calm.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills support emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings become overwhelming. Hannah also uses a client-centered stance to keep conversations grounded in each person's goals. She helps people sort through relationship struggles, body image concerns, attachment issues, and questions about life purpose.
Practical steps like breaking goals into manageable tasks are a regular part of sessions. She works with LGBT concerns and supports women and young adults navigating major life changes. Hannah can assist with habits such as smoking or vaping cessation, and with obsessive or perfectionistic thinking patterns.
Her style is steady, empathetic, and focused on real-life change.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Hannah uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT helps with anxiety, low motivation, and decisions about life direction by teaching people to notice thoughts without being ruled by them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and shift unhelpful thinking patterns and behaviors; this approach is practical for anxiety, depression, and obsessive thoughts.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Hannah will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.
Online sessions can take place as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different needs. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, homework review, or moments when typing is easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English