Hason Vu
Hello, I have extensive experiences in providing mental health services as a License Clinical Social worker (LCSW) to adolescents, adults, and older adults. I received my master's from the University Southern California (USC) and have been practicing for 20 years.
One of my strengths as a therapist is my ability to connect deeply with client from diverse backgrounds and create a safe space for them to explore even the most challenging emotions.
I enjoy helping adolescents, adults, and older adult struggling with mental health issues and has helped many clients to gain understanding and insight into their mental health issues and learned health coping skills to improve their life and have healthy relationships with people they interact with.
First session
In our first session, I will be mostly listened. My goal for the first session is to listen and making sure I understand why the client is here. I want to establish and build rapport and trust so as to create a safe space for client to share their stories. This will help the clients to know whether I am the right therapist for them.
Strengths
I have over 20 years experiences in helping clients struggling with mental health issues. I have knowledge and experiences in different therapeutic modalities that I can utilize to tailor to client's specific mental health needs. One of my strengths as a therapist is my ability to connect deeply with client from diverse backgrounds and create a safe space for them to explore even the most challenging emotions.
Ideal clients
I love working with adolescent, adults, and older adults struggling with depression, anxiety, and feel lost in their life. the clients. These clients often feel helpless and struggled with feeling of self-worth in their lives. My goal in working with these clients are to help them see their strengths and provide positive coping skills. Through our work together, the client will come to understand that they can have a meaningful and positive life.
Treatment methods
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Through individual therapy, I will help you take a closer look at your thoughts and emotions. You will come to understand how your thoughts lead to feelings which affect your actions. Through CBT, you can unlearn negative thoughts that affecting your behaviors and aware how these thoughts and feelings affect your current situations. I will help you to learn to adopt healthier thinking patterns and habits in a more positive way.
Psychoanalytic
As a psychoanalytic therapist, my goal is to help clients explore their pasts and understand how it affects their present behaviors. Psychoanalytic helps client to gain insight into how traumas and their unconscious mind influences their interactions in relationships. Psychoanalytic therapist, use free-flowing conversation to accomplish this goal. In addition, psychoanalytic can often in combination with CBT for personal growth and understanding.
EMDR
EMDR stand for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy. In EMDR session, I will be using services of standardized procedures to help client struggled with traumas by reprocessing those traumatic memories to be able to cope in healthy manner. The goal is to shift the client's emotional response to the trauma and come to a new understanding of what happened in the past.
Eclectic
I have 15 years of experience in providing different types of therapies. As an eclectic therapist, I will use a variety of approaches to treat clients based on their specific needs. Eclectic therapist utilizes whatever form of treatment or combination of treatments to explore client's problems, goals, expectations, and motivation to determine the most effective treatment.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is to provide a balance between compassion and validation regarding issues and mental health symptoms that client is experiencing and able to challenges client to recognize the benefits of change. I will help clients learn new skills to improve emotion regulation and learn to have health relationships with people.
Location
Virtual sessions
Identifies as
Asian / Asian American
Man
Top specialties
Crisis Intervention
Depression
Mood Disorders
Other specialties
Anxiety
Older Adults
Serves
Adults (18 to 64)
Elders (65 and above)
Teenagers (13 to 17)
Licensed in
CaliforniaLicense 24715