I believe that everybody is unique and that one approach doesn't fit all. I combine evidence based treatment with intuition to tailor treatment to each person's needs, taking into consideration their strengths and weaknesses. I provide a supportive, nonjudgmental environment that fosters trust between therapist and client to help clients explore and resolve life challenges.

Have you been cheated on and you don't know whether to stay or go in the relationship? You feel pressure to do what's right, but when you search deep down inside, you are unsure what the right thing is to do. Or maybe the thought of being alone is too scary to even consider, which keeps you staying in a toxic relationship. Whether you're feeling trapped or stuck, you desire more. Let's help you find strength, clarity, and peace.

I specialize in working with adolescents, woman, and families. I am dedicated to helping my clients find solutions, reach their goals, and create positive change and growth. I blend a variety of interventions and theories to adapt to the specific needs of each client. I utilize evidence-based strategies in DBT and CBT to teach new skills, help regulate emotions, change unhelpful cognitions and behaviors, and overcome obstacles in life. I also use a Family Systems perspective to improve interpersonal relationships and family dynamics. I am a believer that every obstacle or hardship can be a platform for growth.

As an experienced therapist, I appreciate the energy it takes to confront problems. I take my role seriously in facilitating healing. From short-term crisis management to longer-term psychotherapy, I strive to help you identify what interferes with your personal aspirations. I care about my clients and do my best to minimize any unpleasant symptoms you are experiencing while we work on strategies that move you towards a more satisfying life. I am authentic, non-judgmental, and direct in my approach. If you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed, stuck, anxious, or have tried to make things better without lasting success, I can help.

The search for a therapist can be difficult, so I am very glad you're here. I thoroughly enjoy working with children, adolescents, and families as well as adults. I incorporate parenting support into each session in order to best support both you and your child, making sure to meet your individual needs. I also have a passion for helping support new mothers and their partners through pregnancy, postpartum, and into parenting while they learn to balance life with children. I also provide individual therapy to adults with a myriad of needs including depression, anxiety, general life stressors, and trauma.

Over my many years of experience, I have worked with individuals of all ages with a broad spectrum of challenges. I bring a warm and compassionate attitude into my work and I am especially attuned to providing a safe, non-judgmental, and protected space for individuals struggling with life's challenges.

I am here to support people through their life journey and where it may lead them. Periodically we need additional assistance and I am here to support their process.

Through a respectful process of listening and questions, I work with you to help clarify your goals and values. I will help you find new perspectives and restore a healthy narrative that does not include feelings of blame or shame. We will work together to develop better skills at managing difficult emotions, such as sadness, disappointment, pain, and anger. We will learn to nurture feelings that are healthy and not those that can get us stuck. I hope to work with you to discover a sense of self-compassion and flexibility.

I feel incredibly fortunate to help my clients find the freedom to live a life of their choosing, improve their relationship with self and others, and find peace. I use brain-based therapies proven to uncover and address issues that talk therapy can take years to heal. In doing so I help children, teens and adults overcome challenges that keep them stuck in negative patterns. Often traumas are at the root of these negative patterns. By offering Brainspotting, a cutting-edge therapy that evolved from EMDR, trauma is accessed, processed and released. This is life-changing. This is freedom.

If you struggle with anxiety or depression, you know how difficult it can be to cope. Anxiety is easy to recognize. We worry more, avoid difficult situations, and feel tense, awkward, or ineffective. Depression feels exhausting and hopeless. We judge ourselves and other people harshly, feel intense sadness, and become passive. It can feel like we can't do anything right or that things never go our way. Imagine being more active, skilled, and competent, communicating more effectively in relationships, being more productive at work or school, and feeling more satisfied with life.

I enjoy helping people with a variety of problems. I appreciate a collaborative approach so we can target issues together. I utilize integrative counseling methodologies such as DBT, CBT, ACT, behavior change, feelings-based and thought-based approaches. I also offer deeper work looking at past influences as well. California License 102197.

Hannah Zackney is a holistic psychotherapist, MFTi supervisor, teacher, writer and speaker that infuses meditation, mindfulness into her work of supporting clients to experience their highest potential. As a yoga teacher of 20 years she is passionate about weaving the mind, body spirit connection to empower and embolden her clients to connect with their true happiness and creative capacity.

My clients come into therapy seeking relief from years of suffering from anxiety, anger, guilt, hopelessness, helplessness, or emptiness. They carry these pains like a thorn in their side, reacting to external events that brush against it reminding them of this great pain. They change relationships, jobs, & cities, but the pain keeps following them. Despite their attempts to avoid feeling it by distracting themselves with relationships, affairs, alcohol/drugs/gambling, professional pursuits, and other external targets, the thorn & the pain remain. They find relief by removing the thorns within, which relieve pain long-term.

I am a firm believer in the mind, body, spirit connection, and as a result take a very holistic approach with my clients. This model emphasizes cultivating a warm and supportive environment, which creates the conditions necessary to facilitate the natural tendency of human beings to move toward wellness. It recognizes that the path to healing, joy and contentment, is an inward journey, which seeks to allow clients to shift from a sense that they are helpless and at the mercy of their circumstances, to a position of empowerment. This process leads clients on a path toward realizing their full potential.

You are reading this because you, or someone you care for, has been struggling to get through the day. What used to work is now much less effective. Yesterday you felt fine - today anxiety stopped you cold in your tracks. You find yourself pulling away from people you love and activities you enjoy. You are worried about what might be wrong, and maybe feeling lost and unsure of what to do next. I can help you find the way back to you, often without medication.

I provide online therapy throughout California. Interactions with a loved one can bring out the very best and worst in us. If the dynamic with your spouse or partner is a repeated source of pain, I am here to help. Instead of trying to understand each other, most partners make accusations and get defensive. l help couples to uncover feelings driving their interactions and reactions and then teach communication skills to help them transform the way they relate and connect. I truly believe that a loving and supportive relationship/family is one the most amazing gifts we can give to ourselves, children, and loved ones.

On the outside, everything’s fine. You’re known for being courageous and unshakeable; the kind of person others want around in a crisis. But on the inside? On the inside there’s a part of your life that feels inauthentic, unmanageable – maybe even downright unbearable. Maybe your work life and home life are pulling you in a million different directions, and you’re ready to quit one or the other. Maybe you and your partner are stuck on the painful side of a betrayal. Or, maybe your marriage feels strained and disconnected, and you wish you could just get those butterflies back.

I see children, adolescents, and adults in individual therapy who are struggling with a variety of issues, including depression, anxiety, relationship problems, life cycle challenges, and trauma. At times the way people try to cope with and manage their past or present difficulties create additional barriers to feeling good, and fulfilling their hopes and goals. As a conscientious, professional, and compassionate clinician, I strive to provide a therapeutic relationship in which together we can think about, understand and help you work through those feelings and thoughts that are troubling, confusing and worrisome, and are perhaps getting in your way.

I can offer you both short-term therapy or longer term therapy to address marital, couples, family, or individual concerns. Together with assessment of your presenting problem we can decide what is best. Resolution and change is possible. I have experience working with adults with adult children issues and with couples in getting beyond repeating communication patterns that are stressful.

Are there days when you feel like a failure, let yourself down? Or your family down?, trouble concentrating, thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way? Is it hard for you to get out of bed or your home? Go to school or work? Get along with others? Relationship/marriage problems? Are you a worrier?