About Hana
Hana Yin is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 16 years of clinical experience in Hawaii. She makes space for people to talk about stress, anxiety, relationships, LGBTQ concerns, trauma, and life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are offered in English and Mandarin and can include shorter check-ins or longer conversations depending on need. Hana uses practical, evidence-informed methods so people can try small changes that add up.
She often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients notice thoughts without getting stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful patterns and build new ways of responding.
Attachment-based ideas guide work around intimacy, trust, and connection. The therapist takes a client-centered stance, listening first and shaping the plan around each person’s goals.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are introduced when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. Her background covers a broad range of concerns including ADHD, addictions, sleeping difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career shifts, and compassion fatigue.
Additional focuses include issues such as adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and intimacy-related topics. Hana aims to meet people where they are and help them build realistic tools for daily life.
Sessions can be run through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The subscription-based model allows scheduling flexibility and can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled according to therapist availability.
How Hana’s approaches translate to online therapy
Hana commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in ways that fit remote work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them and then take actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. Hana collaborates with each person to set goals and then adjusts methods based on what is most helpful. That can mean trying ACT exercises one week and practicing CBT skills the next, or incorporating attachment ideas when relational patterns come up.
Online formats let people fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow more in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent work and try new skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii
- Languages
- English, Mandarin