About Hana
Hana Kuc is a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience based in New York. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and problems that affect self-esteem and motivation. Hana speaks English, Czech, and Slovak and offers a straightforward, steady approach to care.
She tends to work with people who struggle with perfectionism, burnout, procrastination, or harsh self-blame. In sessions she helps clients identify the beliefs and fears that keep them stuck, and then practices small, manageable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Her style aims to be gentle while still encouraging real behavior change. Hana uses evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and Motivational Interviewing. She draws on these tools to reduce symptoms, build coping skills, and increase motivation to make different choices.
Sessions focus on problem-solving and skills you can use between meetings. Practical issues like sleep problems, anger, relationship or intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and career stress are common topics. She also has experience supporting people dealing with grief, compassion fatigue, and issues related to drug or alcohol addiction.
First responder issues and young adult challenges are other areas she has addressed. Hana describes therapy as a collaborative process. She helps people break worries into smaller steps, try new behaviors, and adjust beliefs that get in the way.
Patients who prefer talking in Czech or Slovak can also work with her in those languages.
How her approaches work in online sessions
Hana uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small parts and teaches practical skills for managing anxiety, panic, obsessions, and mood difficulties.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address memories that keep causing distress. EMDR focuses on processing traumatic or stuck memories so they have less emotional charge and interfere less with day-to-day life.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. Hana will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and symptoms and then try methods that fit each person. She adjusts techniques as progress is made and checks in regularly to see what helps.
Online therapy lets people meet by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversations and skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let therapy fit around work, family, or school commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New York, California
- Languages
- English, Czech, Slovak