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Child and teen therapist in San Jose and Redwood City. Founder of Your Therapy Nook.
Working with children since 2012.
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I’m Hannah Ly, a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT #129711, and the founder of Your Therapy Nook. I’ve worked with children since 2012, and I specialize in play therapy and parent coaching for kids and teens ages 3 to 17 in San Jose and Redwood City.
I nannied for families in Silicon Valley before I became a therapist. Real households, school pickups, making dinner, the 6pm crash when everyone was overtired and nobody had anything left.
I watched good parents snap at kids they loved. Not because they weren't trying. The trying was the most obvious thing in the room. What was missing was someone who could read what the child was actually saying.
So that became the job. I let the child lead, I pay very close attention to what they’re telling me while they do it, and then I make sense of it with the parents. My main job is to see.
Your child picks what we do, and I track what keeps showing up. The same figures every week. The story that starts and gets abandoned. The glance over to check I’m still there.
I don’t correct any of it. I reflect it back in a way that helps your child connect with themselves, and when a child feels seen, the behaviors that were doing the talking start to quiet down. Not because I trained them out. Because they aren’t needed anymore.
Brainspotting comes in when something is sitting in the body and talking alone hasn’t moved it. I get curious about who your teen is before anything clinical. Teen therapy follows the relationship.
Built into every case. You know your kid better than I do. My job is to tell you what I see in the room and help you understand what it means.
People who know me best describe me as warm, gentle, and playful.
That’s what I try to bring into the room with your child.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #129711, California BBS
Master’s Degree in Counseling, Western Seminary
Synergetic Play Therapy, advanced training
Brainspotting Phase 1, Pacific Trauma Center, including Brainspotting for Children
Advanced LGBTQ+ competency and treatment training, Santa Clara County
Adoption-competent, attachment-focused clinical training
Working with children and families since 2012
Your Therapy Nook is a group practice now, and it runs on one philosophy, held by every therapist here. What the practice is, what it is against, and how the team works is on the practice page.
Hannah Ly is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT #129711, and the founder and clinical director of Your Therapy Nook, a child and teen therapy practice in San Jose and Redwood City, California. She has worked with children since 2012 and is trained in Synergetic Play Therapy and Brainspotting.
Children and teens, ages 3 to 17. Children and teens are the only population at Your Therapy Nook.
Hannah’s availability is limited and her waitlist moves slower than our associate therapists’. The free consultation call is where we work out the right fit and the realistic timeline for your family.
Fifteen minutes on the phone, no charge. You tell me what home looks like right now, and we work out the right fit and a realistic timeline for your family.
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