About Hana
Hana Yin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Hawaii with 16 years of clinical experience. She aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and identity-related concerns. Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin.
Hana draws on several well-known approaches to tailor care to each person. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients clarify values and take small meaningful steps.
How Hana works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. She also draws from Attachment-Based and client-centered ideas to strengthen emotional connection and self-understanding. Her practice addresses a broad set of concerns including trauma and abuse, ADHD, addictions, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem.
She also supports people coping with career stress, caregiving strain, and major life changes. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, body image, chronic illness and disability, and complex relational patterns like codependency. Hana approaches work with calm attention to each person's story.
She tends to use practical tools and short exercises alongside open conversation. Many clients find this mix helpful for making steady progress between sessions. Online options include video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging, which she uses to fit therapy into busy lives.
International clients may also work with her, and scheduling is set through the site’s matching and booking process.
Hana lists 21 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Hana works with
The areas below are the ones Hana 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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Mandarin |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Hawaii |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people name what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values. Online ACT sessions often use short exercises and homework to build steady momentum on issues like anxiety, career stress, or self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical tools and experiments. In web or phone sessions this can mean tracking patterns between meetings and trying targeted skills in day-to-day life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That plan can shift over time as progress is made or new challenges appear.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes or updates between meetings and fit support into a busy day. These options help people access consistent care regardless of location.
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