Coastal Healing Counselling
Individual and family therapy.
Specializing in helping individuals heal from Anxiety, Disordered Eating/Eating Disorders, and Trauma.
Supporting you on your journey of self-exploration.
Expanding your capacity to live your most fulfilling life.
Accepting New Clients: In Person & Online (BC)
Hanna Law
RSW, MSW
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Hi, I’m Hanna.
I’m here to make sure you feel heard, seen, and understood so you can heal.
People often connect with me when they feel frustrated, stuck in unhelpful cycles of behaviour, and uncertain about how to cope. This can be an incredibly stressful and lonely state to be in.
Therapy helps with:
determining options and making sustainable changes
building awareness/mindfulness so you can shift from reacting to responding
developing coping strategies that work long-term
creating wholeness and healing within
I strongly believe in the healing capacity of the therapeutic relationship.
With presence, compassion, openness, and warmth I hold space for you to be present with your emotional experiences, thoughts, memories, and beliefs. All parts of you are welcome here.
You, as a whole and complex human, are welcome in our shared space. Together, we will navigate whatever you are going through.
I feel incredibly honoured and grateful for the opportunity to walk alongside my clients as they move toward healing. Connect with me today if you’d like to discuss how therapy can help you.
Specialized Therapy
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Disordered Eating Recovery
Helping you heal your relationship with food, your body, and exercise. Health at Every Size (HAES) aligned, trauma-informed, and strengths-based.
Rooted in Intuitive Eating, a framework that promotes food freedom, joyful movement, and positive body image.
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EMDR
This is an effective trauma therapy that doesn't require you to re-tell your story of trauma repeatedly. Dual attention and bilateral stimulation uniquely process traumatic memories in EMDR for lasting improvement.
Clients notice significantly less distress when recalling events.
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Exposure Therapy
I will meet you where you are in your healing journey, and go at your pace as you set goals and gradually face your fears. Through gradual exposure, you will feel increased confidence and reduced anxiety.
ERP with CBT/ACT, is an effective treatment for OCD, panic attacks, phobias, and generalized anxiety.
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Therapy that helps balance strong feelings through mindfulness and other evidence-based skills. DBT is especially helpful for those with trouble controlling impulsive behaviour, maintaining healthy relationships, tolerating distressing emotions, and managing crises.
Anxiety
Treating panic attacks, social anxiety, worries/fears, and phobias. You will be supported to explore your fears and insecurities and learn to respond to them with mindfulness and other effective coping skills.
Anxious in relationships? Shift relational patterns to feel more secure and attuned with those you care about.
Disordered Eating
Develop a healthy and sustainable relationship with food, body, and exercise. Supporting clients to experience body acceptance, intuitive eating, and joyful movement. Shifting away from restrictive eating, body dissatisfaction, and compensatory exercise.
Evidence-based interventions for youth and adults with disordered eating and EDs. Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, Anorexia Nervosa, OSFED, and ARFID. Learn more about recovery here.
Obsessive-Compulsive
Experience relief from demanding intrusive thoughts and frustrating compulsive behaviours.
Learn strategies from Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and cognitive-behavioral therapies to tolerate uncertainty, cope with obsessions, and reduce compulsive behaviours.
Trauma/PTSD
Release trauma through EMDR therapy.
EMDR helps you to process distressing memories and feelings from the past while staying grounded in the present.
Learn more about EMDR here.
Strong Emotions
Experiencing strong emotions doesn’t have to be a problem. Learn to cope with intense emotions and gain skills in distress tolerance, urge surfing, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Conflict and Disconnection
Emotionally focused family therapy (EFFT) helps families find new ways of connecting and communicating. Maintaining secure attachments through validation, effective coregulation, and collaborative behaviour change.
The Gottman method is an effective and evidence-based therapy for couples.
A safe space to heal.
Affirming and inclusive counselling for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks.
Health at Every Size aligned.
Everyone is welcome here.
I gratefully and respectfully acknowledge that I live, work, and play on the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Lekwungen, Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEĆ peoples.
Office, Nature-based, & online options
In-person office, online virtual (video/phone), and walk-and-talk counselling sessions are available.
Walk and talk sessions provide the opportunity to connect in and with nature in calming locations.
Walks typically take place at the Cedar Hill Golf Course or throughout Oak Bay.
