About Hermine
Hermine Price-Spain is a licensed clinical social worker with 33 years of experience. She practices in Alabama and helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, addictions, self-esteem problems, and life changes. She keeps sessions focused and practical.
Conversations are led by the client's goals and current concerns. She uses simple, proven ways to tackle barriers so people can feel better sooner rather than later. Hermine blends listening with focused methods.
How Hermine works
She draws on client-centered work to understand each person's perspective. Mindfulness techniques are used to help manage strong feelings and reduce reactivity during stressful moments. Motivational interviewing is part of her approach when someone needs help finding motivation to change habits.
Solution-focused strategies help set clear, short-term steps and track progress between sessions. Her style is straightforward and supportive. She aims to create a calm space where clients can talk through painful topics like trauma, family of origin issues, grief, and caregiving stress.
She also assists people facing blended family challenges, codependency, and struggles with life purpose. Clients can expect an emphasis on practical next steps. Hermine pairs listening with concrete tools for communication problems, control issues, and addictive behaviors.
She supports LGBT concerns and offers coaching-style guidance when motivation and planning are key.
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What Hermine works with
The areas below are the ones Hermine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 33 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Alabama |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person's perspective and building a trusting, nonjudgmental conversation. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to clarify what matters to them.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple awareness and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and manage strong emotions. These tools can be used during stressful moments or as daily routines to steady mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help figure out which methods fit a person's goals and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked together.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls work well for deeper conversational work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, frequent progress updates, or when scheduling has to fit around work and caregiving duties.
These options give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue momentum between appointments.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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