Hannah Phillips Hale, LPC

Hannah Phillips Hale is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with seven years since licensure and more than a decade of prior mental health work. She lists stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, depression, addictions, LGBT issues, family and parenting among her practice areas. Hannah also notes additional focuses such as attachment concerns, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and grief.

She favors a present-focused, straightforward style that looks for small, achievable steps. Hannah describes the counseling relationship as a partnership where client and counselor collaborate on goals. She often begins with practical, short-term objectives to build momentum toward larger changes.

Creative methods feature in her work. Hannah is a Registered Art Therapist working toward Art Therapy Board Certification and uses art-based and expressive approaches even with people who do not consider themselves artists. These techniques are applied alongside talking therapy to encourage exploration and discovery.

Her clinical toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based methods, Client-Centered approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy among others. She blends these with motivational and solution-focused strategies to address everyday problems and complex histories alike.

Hannah’s background includes work in homes, schools, outpatient settings, and community programs. That range informs how she thinks about family dynamics and parenting stress. Her experience includes work with pregnant people, children from birth, adolescents, parents, and older adults, which shapes her understanding of life-stage issues and relationships.

How Hannah’s approaches translate to online work