About Yalda
Yalda Hasara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in California who helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and depression. She brings nine years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to create a respectful, practical space for people to talk through hard moments. Her approach centers on the person in front of her.
She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen carefully and build on strengths, and she blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to tackle troubling thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps that feel manageable between meetings. Yalda has worked extensively with people facing trauma, emotional abuse, relationship strain, and addiction-related concerns. She also supports those coping with life changes, hospice and end-of-life issues, panic attacks, mood disorders, and compassion fatigue.
She frames these topics in everyday terms and aims to reduce shame and isolation. In sessions she works collaboratively, pairing empathy with practical tools. That can include skill-building for anxiety, communication strategies for relationship problems, and exercises to address guilt or shame.
She encourages small, steady changes rather than overnight fixes. Yalda offers services in English and Persian, and she accepts international clients. Her practice uses multiple formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy is a listening-focused approach that prioritizes the person’s perspective. The therapist reflects concerns, validates feelings, and helps people identify their own solutions, which can be useful for grief, shame, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thinking and behavior that fuel anxiety or low mood. Work might include identifying unhelpful thoughts, trying new behaviors, and practicing skills between sessions to reduce panic and social anxiety.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. People often combine elements from different approaches to meet practical needs and preferences.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when discussing sensitive topics. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or review skills between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to keep steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Persian
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