Yalda Hasara, LCSW

Yalda Hasara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California with 9 years of clinical experience supporting people through grief, depression, anxiety, and significant life transitions. She provides therapy to individuals, teens, and families facing relationship challenges, parenting concerns, career shifts, and the aftermath of trauma or emotional abuse, combining practical strategies with empathic listening to help clients manage symptoms and rebuild stability.

Her approach is collaborative and client-centered, prioritizing respect and sensitivity while avoiding stigmatizing labels. Yalda emphasizes clients' strengths and resilience, tailoring interventions to each person’s goals and circumstances. She integrates cognitive-behavioral techniques alongside humanistic, psychodynamic, and rational-emotive methods to create individualized treatment plans that address mood, stress, and relational patterns.

With experience across grief work, family dynamics, addiction, compassion fatigue, and mood disorders, she focuses on empowering clients to develop coping skills and clearer perspectives during difficult transitions. Yalda views the start of therapy as a courageous step and aims to offer guidance, support, and practical tools that foster greater well-being and renewed purpose.

She welcomes the opportunity to work with individuals seeking thoughtful, strengths-based care tailored to their unique needs.

Client-Centered and CBT Approaches for Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client’s experience and priorities - the therapist listens closely, offers empathic support, and helps people find their own path forward, which suits work on relationships, life transitions, and meaning.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) uses practical, skill-based techniques to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors - it is often applied to anxiety, depression, panic, and patterns that maintain stress.

Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Yalda works alongside each person to explore goals, preferences, and needs, adapting methods over time so that therapy feels relevant and effective for the individual.

Online therapy makes consistent care more accessible through flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats allow people to connect with licensed professionals from different locations and to fit sessions into busy schedules, while also supporting follow-up between visits with brief check-ins and practical tools.