Heal & Discover Your Most Authentic and Whole Self
Specialized in helping you heal from Anxiety, Disordered Eating, and Trauma
Supporting you on your journey of self-exploration and emotional attunement
Youth, Adult, and Family Therapy
Our office is located in Victoria, BC. Secure online counselling is available across BC.
Experienced Trauma and Anxiety Therapist & Eating Disorder Specialist
Hanna Law
(she/her) MSW, Registered Social Worker
I’m a compassionate, relatable therapist offering trauma-informed, strengths-based care.
I create a warm, open space where you can explore your thoughts, emotions, memories, and beliefs without judgment. My goal is for you to feel truly seen, heard, and understood because healing happens in safe connection.
Many people reach out when they feel stuck, overwhelmed, or caught in patterns they don’t know how to shift. You don’t have to navigate that alone.
Therapy moves at your pace. Together, we’ll gently untangle what’s holding you back and help you reconnect with yourself and your life in meaningful ways.
You, as a whole and complex human, are welcome in our shared space. Together, we will navigate all that you are going through.
Is this therapy process the right fit for you?
Is committed to growth but keeps getting stuck in repetitive cycles
Wants to understand why you experience distressing thoughts, emotions, and behaviours
Feels a pull towards unravelling patterns that aren’t serving you any longer
Wonders how to feel your emotions safely, without being overwhelmed
Needs a trusted, real therapist to walk alongside you as you explore your world and make meaningful changes
We could be a great match if you are someone who…
Specialized Services
Offered to youth, adults, and families feeling the pull towards exploring their rich inner worlds, understanding complex patterns, and discovering clarity and wholeness.
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Helping you heal your relationship with food, your body, and exercise. Health at Every Size (HAES) aligned, trauma-informed, and strengths-based.
Rooted in CBT-E and Intuitive Eating, a framework that promotes food freedom, joyful movement, and positive body image. Shifting away from restrictive eating, body checking, and compensatory exercise.
Family-Based Treatment (FBT) is available for families of teens struggling with eating disorders. Collaboration is key, and I will work alongside medical professionals for comprehensive care.
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EMDR helps ease distress and heal trauma. Sessions follow a unique structure so you feel safe and can slowly process painful memories. We will work to resolve traumatic memories by shifting unhelpful beliefs, finding new perspectives, and releasing energy from the body.
Using bilateral stimulation and dual attention to effectively and quickly resolve stuck reactions. Helping you integrate experiences and move forward.
EMDR can also be helpful for anxiety, body image distress, and OCD.
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When anxiety gets in the way of our goals and interests, it’s important to challenge it. Through gradual exposure, you will feel increased confidence and reduced anxiety, allowing you to do what’s important to you.
Therapy supports you to explore your fears and insecurities and learn to respond to them with mindfulness and effective coping skills.
Treating panic attacks, social anxiety, worries/fears, and phobias. Experience relief from demanding intrusive thoughts and frustrating compulsive behaviours.
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Experiencing strong emotions doesn’t have to be overwhelming and concerning. We can learn to cope with intense emotions and gain skills in distress tolerance, urge surfing, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Therapy that helps balance strong feelings through mindfulness and other evidence-based skills.
This therapy is for you if you’re someone who struggles to control their anger, self-harms when upset, feels overwhelmed with anxiety/sadness, and often feels in crisis.
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Struggling families and couples benefit from support to understand the cycles they get stuck in, attune to each other and connect deeply, and learn to communicate more effectively.
The Gottman method is an effective and evidence-based therapy for couples. It’s skills-based and emotion-focused, helping couples get to the root of their problems and solve them.
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.
At Coastal, you will find…
Warmth, Attunement, Authenticity, Curiosity, & Togetherness
A safe space to heal.
Affirming and inclusive counselling
2SLGBTQIA+ friendly
Health at Every Size
Neurodiverse affirming
Trauma-informed
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 & Online
Our office is located in a quiet building on Oak Bay Avenue with ample street parking.
Secure online video and phone sessions are available to all BC residents.
Walk-and-talk counselling sessions are available on Fridays in local areas.
Walks typically take place at the Cedar Hill Golf Course or throughout Oak Bay. Other locations may be available upon request.