Hana Blahova, ACA

Hana Blahova is an ACA counsellor with six years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, low self-esteem and motivation. Her approach is practical and straightforward, aimed at helping people make small changes that improve day-to-day coping.

Hana treats sessions as collaborative problem-solving. She listens to what a person has tried already, points out patterns in thoughts and behaviour, and offers simple experiments to test different ways of responding. Sessions often include noticing unhelpful thinking, practising new responses, and tracking what helps between meetings.

She uses a mix of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centred approaches. That means there is attention to thoughts and behaviours, values-based actions, and making space for a person's perspective. Mindfulness and narrative techniques may also be used to help reframe experiences and manage stress responses.

Hana helps with practical concerns such as coping with life changes, work stress, and questions about life purpose. She also supports people dealing with attachment-related issues, caregiver stress and post-traumatic stress symptoms. The focus is on clear steps people can try, not on abstract theory.

Sessions are conducted in English and provided from Australia. People who want to begin are encouraged to use the online matching and booking process to arrange a first meeting and to discuss session arrangements before the first appointment.

How Hana uses therapeutic approaches online