About Hana
Hana Yin is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 16 years of clinical experience based in Hawaii. She creates a warm, affirming space where people can talk about what matters most to them. Hana listens carefully and helps clients take practical steps toward feeling better and more capable.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, ADHD, addictions, and issues related to intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with sleep problems, anger, career transitions, caregiving strain, and major life changes. LGBT concerns and compassion fatigue are part of the work she provides. Hana draws on approaches that emphasize values, emotional connection, and learning new skills.
She blends acceptance and commitment ideas with attachment-focused thinking and client-centered methods to tailor therapy to each person. Cognitive behavioral and dialectical strategies are also part of her toolkit for handling anxiety, mood, and behavior patterns. Her sessions aim to be straightforward and practical.
Clients can expect focused conversations, skill-building exercises, and attention to how emotions show up in the body. The goal is clearer choices, less reactivity, and more grounded daily functioning. Hana offers sessions in English and Mandarin and works with international clients.
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them. It helps people with anxiety, avoidance, and life decisions by encouraging practical action even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and how early bonds shape current reactions; it helps with trust, intimacy, and relationship struggles by promoting safer ways of connecting. Client-Centered Therapy centers on empathic listening and the therapist's genuine presence to help people make their own discoveries and build self-trust.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hana will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily demands. She mixes approaches as needed and checks in regularly to see what is or isn't helpful so the plan can change over time.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options offer flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent while juggling work, travel, caregiving, or varied schedules.
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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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