About Hope
Hope Hartz is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for everyday problems that make life harder. Her work aims to help people build better coping skills and feel more able to face daily demands.
She has a long history of working with people affected by addiction and with those involved in juvenile and adult drug court systems.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing anger, motivation challenges, low self-esteem, and mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder. These areas often overlap, so she addresses them together rather than in isolation. Hope draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide conversations and suggest strategies.
Sessions focus on usable tools - breathing and grounding for panic, skill practice for managing impulses, and problem-solving for communication and control issues. She helps people break worries into manageable steps and track progress over time. Beyond one-on-one work, she has experience supervising other clinicians in her current role as a clinical supervisor.
That background informs how she structures treatment plans and measures outcomes. Hope works with adults in West Virginia and conducts sessions in English. Her years in practice mean she has seen many ways problems present and change.
She aims to keep sessions simple, compassionate, and goal-oriented so people can start making practical changes quickly.
Approaches that match online work
Hope uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills people can apply between sessions. One common approach she draws on teaches breathing, grounding, and short behavioral strategies that help reduce panic and acute anxiety. These tools are brief and translate easily to video or phone sessions.Another approach emphasizes habit change and impulse control through repeated practice and small goals. This method helps with addictions, compulsive behaviors, impulsivity, and anger by breaking problems into manageable steps and tracking progress over time. It works well with messaging or live chat for regular check-ins and reminders.
Choosing the right approach starts as a conversation. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify goals, try techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which methods fit a person's needs and daily routine.
Online therapy formats offer flexibility and accessibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, homework exchanges, and quick coping reminders between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English
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