Hannah Phillips Hale

Hannah Phillips Hale is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia. She brings seven years of post-license counseling experience and a long history in mental health. Hannah works with people on everyday struggles like anxiety, depression, relationship problems, anger, and parenting stress.

She uses a practical, present-focused style that keeps sessions simple and goal-driven. Hannah treats therapy as a partnership - she listens, offers tools, and helps clients try small, achievable steps. Over time those steps can add up to bigger changes.

Her background includes many settings such as schools, community programs, in-home work, and outpatient offices. That variety shaped the way she supports people through grief, trauma, addiction, and life transitions. She also draws on her experience with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and compassion fatigue.

Hannah integrates creative methods, including art therapy techniques, to help people explore feelings and make progress. You do not need art skills to benefit from these methods; they are used to open new ways of understanding and coping.

Her clinical toolbox includes cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based approaches, attachment-focused work, and skills from dialectical behavior therapy. She tailors methods to each person’s needs while emphasizing collaboration and steady, practical steps toward change.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose values-based actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from unhelpful patterns.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships shape emotion and behavior. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and work toward safety and connection in how they relate to others.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, anger, and stress management.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying one method for a while and adjusting based on what helps.

Confirm session formats before booking so you know what is offered. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life by reducing travel and allowing sessions during breaks or from different locations. Some formats may also be better when a shorter check-in is needed or when video isn’t possible, so check current options to pick what works best.