About Hannia
Hannia Burke-Aguero is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who brings three decades of experience to her practice in Missouri. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. Hannia speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy accessible to diverse clients.
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to identify patterns that keep people stuck. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to each person's needs. Hannia draws on both professional experience and her bicultural background to understand cultural and identity concerns.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses attachment issues, communication problems, and caregiver stress. She also helps people facing divorce or separation, guilt and shame, isolation or loneliness, and midlife transitions. Financial worries and questions about life purpose are topics she will talk through with clients.
Hannia incorporates methods such as mindfulness, cognitive behavioral exercises, and action-oriented techniques when they fit a client's goals. She also uses motivational interviewing and approaches that support trauma recovery when appropriate. The therapist explains tools in everyday language and practices skills people can use between sessions.
Outside of her clinical work, Hannia enjoys family time, especially with her grandchildren, and keeps active through exercise, cooking, gardening, and home projects. She values learning about different cultures and brings that curiosity into therapeutic conversations.
Evidence-based techniques and online sessions
Hannia commonly uses cognitive behavioral strategies to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that feed anxiety and low mood. These techniques focus on practical exercises and short experiments to reduce symptoms and build coping skills.She also incorporates mindfulness practices to help clients notice reactions and manage stress in the moment. Mindfulness exercises are brief and can be practiced between sessions to support emotional regulation and grounding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Hannia will discuss different methods and tailor a plan based on a person's goals, concerns, and preferences. That collaboration helps choose which techniques to emphasize and how to pace the work.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the process. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for brief check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support, quick check-ins, and written exercises that clients can review later. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English, Spanish