About Hana
Hana Yin is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) practicing in Hawaii with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on creating a welcoming, affirming space where people can talk about what matters most to them. Hana uses a person-centered way of working that attends to both stories and bodily experience.
Her practice attends to many concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, ADHD, addictions, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing career changes, caregiving strain, and compassion fatigue. Additional focuses include attachment issues, body image, chronic illness, and navigating alternative sexual cultures. Hana blends somatic awareness with evidence-informed therapies to help clients notice how emotions show up in the body.
She pairs that with cognitive-behavioral skills and acceptance-based strategies to shift unhelpful thought patterns and increase psychological flexibility. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and emphasize practical steps for daily life. Her work values clear communication and emotional safety.
Clients can expect an attentive listener who helps them map patterns, set goals, and try new ways of responding. Therapy may include breath and body awareness alongside talk-based techniques when useful. Hana offers services in English and Mandarin and welcomes international clients for remote sessions.
She works with a range of adult concerns and aims to support people in finding more ease, clearer boundaries, and better coping skills.
How somatic and talk approaches work online
Somatic-informed work focuses on how emotions and stress appear in the body. Online sessions can include simple body-awareness practices, grounding exercises, and noticing breath and posture to help reduce tension and increase calm. These techniques often support trauma recovery, anxiety, and stress management. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify values and take small steps toward a meaningful life despite difficult thoughts or feelings. In sessions, this may look like identifying personal values, experimenting with new behaviors, and practicing acceptance of inner experience to reduce struggle. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current bonds. It helps people understand connection styles and try different ways of relating that build safety and trust in present relationships. Finding the right mix of approaches happens together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match needs, goals, and personal preferences. This collaborative stance lets the work shift as progress unfolds. Online therapy offers practical benefits for this practice. Video calls let the therapist observe nonverbal cues and guide somatic exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is not possible. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, and tools between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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