Hannah Padilla, LPC

Hannah Padilla is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on using cognitive behavioral approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood concerns. She favors a direct and compassionate style that balances support with gentle challenge. Hannah aims to help people find practical tools they can use between sessions.

She brings four years of experience working with adolescents and adults. That experience includes trauma-related concerns such as sexual abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, and neglect. She also helps people who are coping with grief, low self-esteem, depression, anger, and relationship or family struggles.

Hannah’s approach centers on identifying unhelpful automatic thoughts and replacing them with more balanced ways of thinking. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and mindfulness techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Motivational and solution-focused strategies are used when a client wants concrete short-term changes.

Sessions are intended to be a collaborative process. Hannah listens first, then helps set clear goals and a plan to reach them. She offers straightforward feedback and practical exercises to practice outside of sessions. The aim is gradual, sustained change so daily life feels more manageable.

Hannah practices in Texas and provides services in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect for care.

CBT and collaborative care in online sessions

Hannah draws mainly on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns and related behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve daily functioning. She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions grounded in empathy and respect, giving people space to describe their experience while the therapist reflects and clarifies.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Hannah partners with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is made. The process is collaborative and goal-oriented so clients can see what is working and shift course when needed.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth work and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat is helpful for quick exchanges, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins and homework reminders. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain momentum between sessions.