About Hana
Hana Yin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of clinical experience in Hawaii. She creates a warm, accepting space where people can talk about what matters most to them. Sessions are straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use between meetings.
Her work covers many common struggles, including anxiety, stress, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, addiction, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem. Hana also lists ADHD and LGBT-related concerns among her focus areas.
Background and approach
She helps people cope with life changes, career decisions, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Hana draws on several approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral strategies, and elements of dialectical behavior work. In sessions she listens for patterns, helps name unhelpful thinking, and supports small behavior shifts that add up over time.
Conversations are meant to feel collaborative and practical. People working with her can expect attention to both feelings and everyday functioning. That can mean learning tools for emotion regulation, practicing clearer communication, or building routines that improve sleep and focus.
Her style balances direct skills coaching with space to reflect. She offers care in English and Mandarin and provides multiple online session formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling based on the therapist's availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to identify personal values and take small committed actions toward them while learning to notice difficult thoughts without getting controlled by them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thinking that increase distress and testing new behaviors that reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. That collaborative process means approaches can be blended and adjusted over time to match progress and life changes.
Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared screen tools for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, and flexibility around work or caregiving schedules. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping focus on achievable steps and emotional skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English, Mandarin
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