About Ylan
Ylan Hunt is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of professional experience helping people facing trauma, grief, low self-esteem, career struggles, and compassion fatigue. She focuses on practical support and steady guidance. Ylan aims to make the first steps feel manageable for people who are worried or unsure about therapy.
She centers sessions on the person in front of her, treating each story as the starting point for change.
How Ylan works
Ylan looks for existing strengths and helps people use those strengths to handle current challenges. Conversations are direct and focused, with an emphasis on doable next steps rather than abstract theory. Her background includes a decade of work in California settings where she supported those affected by trauma, abuse, and loss.
Ylan has also worked with people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, addiction concerns, and issues that come with aging and end-of-life transitions. This range gives her practical insight into how different life stresses interact. In sessions she helps people rebuild confidence, sort career questions, and address feelings of guilt or shame.
She also provides care for those facing post-traumatic stress, veteran-related issues, and first responder stress. Ylan attends to both immediate coping needs and longer-term goals so progress can be steady. People meet with her by phone, video call, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She holds a California LCSW credential, and she conducts therapy in English. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
What Ylan works with
The areas below are the ones Ylan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How evidence-based techniques translate to online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on building skills and changing patterns that get in the way of daily life. One common approach teaches practical coping skills and grounding exercises to reduce symptoms after trauma and abuse. These tools help people manage flashbacks, strong emotions, or distressing memories in the moment.Another approach concentrates on rebuilding self-esteem and motivation through structured goal work and behavioral experiments. It helps people test new ways of acting, gather real-world feedback, and slowly strengthen confidence. A third common method addresses grief and compassion fatigue by creating space to process loss and set manageable routines that restore energy and meaning.
Finding the right mix of techniques is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review current needs, preferences, and goals, then try approaches that fit. They adjust the plan over time based on what helps most, so therapy stays practical and focused on the client's priorities.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make this work more flexible. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging makes short check-ins and step-by-step homework simple. These options let people fit sessions into busy schedules and continue progress without travel.
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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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