Feel More At Home In Yourself
Anxiety, Trauma & Eating Disorder Therapy in Victoria, BC
A space to feel understood, find healing, and move forward.
Specialized in-person and online therapy for adults, youth, and families.
Experienced & Specialized
Therapy
Hanna Law
(she/her) MSW, Registered Social Worker
Finding the right therapist is about finding someone you feel comfortable with, someone who takes the time to understand you, and someone you can be yourself with.
I'm a compassionate, down-to-earth therapist offering trauma-informed, strengths-based care. I believe meaningful change begins with feeling understood and having the space to explore what's happening beneath the surface.
Maybe you find yourself overthinking, feeling overwhelmed by emotions, struggling with your relationship with food or your body, or repeating patterns you wish you could change. Perhaps you have a sense that something isn't quite right, but aren't sure where to begin.
Whatever brings you here, we can navigate together. Together, we'll make space to understand your experiences, build on your strengths, and explore new possibilities for how you relate to yourself and the world around you.
At Coastal, you will find…
Warmth, Attunement, Curiosity, & Togetherness
Therapy with Hanna
If any of these feel familiar then you might feel at home here…
You find yourself falling into the same patterns, reactions, or habits, even when you're trying hard to do things differently.
You spend a lot of time overthinking, worrying, or feeling anxious, and long to feel more calm, grounded, and at ease in your everyday life.
You sometimes avoid certain feelings, situations, or conversations because they feel uncomfortable or overwhelming, but wish you could approach them with more confidence.
You want to better understand yourself, including why you think, feel, and respond the way you do.
You recognize that some of the ways you've learned to cope aren't serving you anymore, and feel ready to explore new ways of relating to yourself and others.
You want to feel more comfortable with your emotions, rather than feeling controlled, consumed, or overwhelmed by them.
You're looking for a genuine, supportive therapeutic relationship where you can feel understood, show up as you are, and explore meaningful change at a pace that feels right for you.
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 OCD, 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.
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 in Victoria, BC 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, Elk/Beaver Lake. or throughout Oak Bay. Other locations may be available upon request.