I am a masters level clinical intern currently completing my graduate training in Marriage and Family Therapy at Mercer University. 

I approach therapy through a systemic lens, recognizing that individuals are deeply shaped by their relationships, family histories, cultural identities, and intergenerational patterns. I believe that understanding these broader contexts allows for deeper insight, healing, and sustainable change. My goal is to create a warm, safe, honest, culturally responsive, and collaborative space where individuals and families feel supported to explore, grow, or address specific concerns. I incorporate play-based and mindfulness approaches with talk therapy. Above all, I am interested in your unique story and your specific goals.

I truly believe that it is important to understand how our behavior, thoughts, and emotions are connected and influenced by our biology, history, and environments. Drawing from my education in neurobiology at Emory University where I focused on research on the biology of mental disorders and child developmental psychology, I offer a unique integration of biology-based and psychology-based counseling that helps clients and parents understand themselves, learn emotional regulation skills, and improve interactional patterns. 

My passion is to support connections across generations and cultures, especially parents and children, to improve self-esteem, relational quality and navigate family transitions and differences within families. I have firsthand knowledge of the complexities of living with multiple cultures and languages and extensive experience working with multi-generational and immigrant families and children.

Outside of counseling, I am the parent of three children in very different stages of life that help me to enjoy the world through their eyes. I enjoy reading, painting, going for walks with my husband, and playing tennis on a team with my friends. 

Hanna can be reached at hanna@gaiacounseling.com