About Bertrille
Bertrille Hookfin uses a person-centered approach to help people feel understood and accepted. She draws on multiple methods to match each session to what a person needs. She speaks plainly and aims to make therapy easy to follow for someone juggling busy days.
Bertrille holds both LCSW and LICSW credentials and brings 22 years of experience in Louisiana to her work. Her sessions often focus on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and grief.
How Bertrille works
She also helps with trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, and concerns about identity including LGBT and gender dysphoria. Practical goals such as improving sleep, eating, and self-esteem are part of many plans. Bertrille mixes client-centered listening with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
She also uses EMDR for trauma-related memories and motivational interviewing to support change. The result is a flexible plan that adjusts as progress happens. She has long experience supporting parents, people coping with caregiving stress, first responder issues, and those facing major life transitions.
She also works with concerns like attachment, abandonment, body image, and forgiveness. Her style is straightforward and steady, focusing on what a person can do next. People meet with her via phone, video, live chat, or text messaging.
Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.
Bertrille lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Bertrille works with
The areas below are the ones Bertrille selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 22 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Louisiana |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance. In online sessions this means the therapist focuses on your priorities and adapts the pace to your needs, helping you name goals and work toward them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; it works well for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and everyday stress by giving clear skills to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit goals and preferences. That may mean starting with client-centered conversations, adding CBT skills, or using EMDR for specific trauma memories if that seems appropriate. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into work, caregiving, or school routines.
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