About Hannah
Hannah Thayer is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with five years of experience working in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem concerns. Hannah creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly about what’s on their mind.
She combines body-focused somatic work with mindfulness and skills-based therapy to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients clarify values and shift unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and practical, with attention to both feelings and day-to-day coping. Hannah often supports people navigating LGBT concerns and those dealing with life transitions or loss of motivation. She pays attention to relationship patterns, attachment issues, and communication problems.
Many clients work on building self-love, improving body image, and reducing social anxiety. Therapy can include short-term goals like coping skills for panic or longer work on personality concerns, obsessions, compulsions, and grief. Hannah also helps people trying to quit smoking or vaping using motivational strategies and practical steps.
She tailors pacing and focus to each person’s needs. Sessions balance listening and skill practice so clients leave with tools they can use between meetings. The approach respects a person’s values and readiness for change.
Hannah offers care in English and works with adults in California.
How somatic and skills-based approaches translate online
Somatic-informed practice helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and learn simple ways to regulate those sensations. Online sessions can include guided body awareness, breathing exercises, and grounding techniques that are easily taught over video or phone.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life. In sessions Hannah helps people name what matters to them and try experiments that reduce avoidance and build committed action.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Clients and therapist decide together which methods to use and how quickly to move forward.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and people who prefer remote care. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messages support brief check-ins and between-session practice. These formats make it easier to practice skills in real life and maintain continuity when circumstances change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English