About Chana
Chana Rivka Hersh is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She also supports clients dealing with depression, grief, trauma, relationship strain, addictions, and a wide range of life changes. Her style is straightforward and focused on practical steps people can use right away.
She begins sessions by listening closely and getting to know each person's story. That person-centered start helps build trust and clarify what the client wants to change.
Background and approach
From there she works with clients to set clear goals and build a step-by-step plan to reach them. Over 25 years of practice have included work with severe and persistent mental illness, crisis counseling, and long-term therapy for trauma and abuse. That background shaped a practical approach to symptoms like panic, intrusive memories, chronic pain, and addiction behaviors.
She has also supported people with relationship problems, sexual and intimacy concerns, and issues related to caregiving and aging. Her toolkit draws on attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, existential perspectives, and a client-centered foundation. She adapts methods to each person's needs instead of using a single fixed method.
Clients collaborate with her to choose the mix that feels most useful. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Chana focuses on helping people move toward practical goals and clearer everyday functioning.
How her approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based therapy focuses on relationships and patterns people developed early in life. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of connecting in daily relationships. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client's lead to set goals and priorities, which suits video and text formats where conversations remain focused on the client's concerns.She also uses cognitive behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and habits and to build small behavioral experiments. CBT techniques work well online because they include homework, brief check-ins, and tracking progress between sessions. Together, these methods help address anxiety, trauma responses, relationship worries, and coping with life transitions in a clear, stepwise way.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the first sessions. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and daily routine. That collaboration continues as progress and needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions fit lower-bandwidth situations, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or flexible communication during a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving schedules while keeping treatment focused on practical steps and measurable goals.
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What this therapist 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
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