Gloria Hanania , LMHC

Gloria Hanania is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 25 years of professional experience. She holds the LMHC credential, which stands for Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and has spent her career supporting people navigating stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, career difficulties, depression, and the many transitions life can bring.

Hanania integrates a range of therapeutic methods into her work, including Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She adapts these approaches to address issues such as codependency, commitment concerns, communication problems, coping after natural or human-caused disasters, divorce and separation, substance use challenges, feelings of emptiness, and struggles with forgiveness, guilt, or shame.

Her practice also pays attention to isolation and loneliness, questions of life purpose, money and financial stress, multicultural concerns, seasonal affective disorder, and cultivating self-love. Hanania aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored honestly. She recognizes that beginning therapy takes courage and affirms clients for taking that first step toward support and change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person rather than the problem, offering empathetic listening and support to help clients explore their values, feelings, and goals. This approach is helpful for relationship concerns, self-esteem work, and navigating life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured approach that examines the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It is commonly used for stress, anxiety, depression, and developing practical coping strategies to change unhelpful patterns.

Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative, goal-oriented style that helps people resolve ambivalence and strengthen motivation for change. It can be effective for career shifts, addiction-related concerns, and making lasting behavioral adjustments.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist will work together with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process may blend different techniques as appropriate.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit support into busy schedules and varied circumstances. These options can increase access to licensed professionals and allow therapy to continue across different locations and life demands.