Child and teen therapist in San Jose and Redwood City. Founder of Your Therapy Nook. Working with children since 2012.
Book a Free 15-Minute ConsultationAges
3 to 17
Locations
San Jose and Redwood City
Parent coaching
Every four weeks
Consultation
Free, 15 minutes
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 run out of road with 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.
For younger kids, it's play therapy.
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.
Reflecting, not correcting.
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.
With teens, it's drawing, games, and real conversation.
And Brainspotting 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. The therapy follows the relationship.
And with you, it's parent coaching every four weeks.
Part of 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
I made Your Therapy Nook children and teens only on purpose. Parents kept telling me some version of the same story about the therapy they'd tried before. The therapist's profile listed kids, adults, couples, and grief, and they couldn't tell whether this person spent their days with children. Their seven-year-old got handed a worksheet. Or the sessions were all about getting the behavior to stop, and nobody asked what it was saying. Months went by and they still didn't know what their child was working on, or what to do at home. Some of them just stopped going.
Those families didn't need a better worksheet. They needed someone whose whole day is children and teens. Someone who would ask what the behavior was saying before trying to make it stop. And they needed to be part of it, not left in the waiting room. So that's what I built.
It's a group practice now, and every therapist here works this way. What the practice is, what it is against, and how the team works are all 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 the rest of the team's. The free consultation call is where we work out the right fit and the realistic timeline for your family: we match you with the therapist on our team we think fits your child best, usually one of our other therapists, each trained and supervised by Hannah.
Why specialization matters, questions to ask, red flags, and how to tell when you have found the right fit.
What we offer families on the Peninsula: play therapy, teen therapy, parent coaching, and how to get started.
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The first call is free, 15 minutes, and with me. Tell me what has been going on, and by the end we will both know whether this is the right fit.
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