Hannah Phillips Hale , LPC

Hannah Phillips Hale is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with seven years of clinical experience. As an LPC, she is a licensed mental health professional who works with individuals, couples, and families to address emotional and relational challenges.

She approaches therapy as a collaborative partnership, meeting people with curiosity and a willingness to learn alongside them. Hannah emphasizes present-focused work and practical steps, helping clients pursue attainable goals that build confidence and momentum before expanding to longer-term objectives. Her style balances straightforward strategies with attention to meaningful personal discovery, valuing the process of growth as much as the outcomes.

Hannah uses a range of therapeutic methods tailored to each person's needs, including acceptance and commitment techniques, attachment-informed work, client-centered principles, cognitive behavioral strategies, and dialectical behavior skills. She also incorporates creative and expressive methods, such as art-based techniques, to support exploration and self-understanding without requiring prior artistic experience.

Her experience includes supporting pregnant mothers and unborn children, infants and their caregivers, children, adolescents, parents, older adults, couples, and families in settings that have included in-home care, outpatient offices, schools, and community programs. Hannah commonly works with stress, anxiety, relationship and communication concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, grief, parenting and caregiver stress, ADHD, self-esteem and identity issues, and life transitions. She aims to help clients build coping skills, clarify values, and strengthen relationships as they move forward.