About Nina
Nina Kaplan Hansson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, and abuse. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what is most pressing for each person. Her approach aims to make the first steps feel manageable rather than overwhelming.
Nina holds a California LCSW credential and brings 14 years of professional experience to her work. She focuses on practical ways to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions are paced to match what a client can handle right now while planning for gradual change. Clients often bring concerns about relationships, communication problems, and family of origin issues. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, attachment struggles, and blended family stress.
Additional focus areas include body image, caregiver strain, co-morbidity, and substance-related problems. In sessions Nina helps clients name what feels stuck and try small, achievable steps toward different outcomes. She pays attention to how patterns from the past affect present choices.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to make therapy useful in daily life. Nina offers help for those coping with emptiness, commitment issues, divorce and separation, and the challenges of autism and Asperger syndrome when they intersect with mood or relational concerns. She works with each person to set clear goals and create a plan that fits their routine and needs.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Many of Nina's sessions use evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on symptoms and daily functioning. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thinking and try new ways of responding to stress and worry; it is useful for anxiety and depression. Another approach focuses on processing and reducing the impact of traumatic memories so they no longer drive current reactions; this can help with trauma and abuse histories.Choosing the right method is a team effort. Nina works with each person to identify goals, try a few methods, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. She explains options in plain language and checks in frequently to make sure the approach matches the client's needs and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions can be a good option when video is difficult or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when a written format feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain continuity over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English