Chana Rivka Hersh , LPC

Chana Rivka Hersh is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas with 25 years of clinical experience. She holds a Master of Arts in Community Counseling from Texas State University, where she focused on individual counseling and marriage and family therapy. Her training and long career have given her experience across a broad range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety, grief, relationship and family issues, addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and challenges related to ADHD, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.

Hersh takes an integrative, client-centered approach that begins with listening and building a trusting therapeutic relationship. From that foundation she works collaboratively with clients to clarify goals and select strategies that fit each person’s needs, drawing from attachment-based perspectives, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior concepts, and existential and client-centered principles as appropriate. Her background includes work with individuals who experienced severe and persistent mental illness as well as focused practice supporting people who have survived physical, sexual, and family violence.

Across decades of practice she has provided both crisis intervention and ongoing counseling for issues such as post-traumatic stress, chronic pain, phobias, suicidal ideation and self-harm, marital conflict, LGBTQ concerns, substance use and sexual addictions, and eating disorders. Her practice emphasizes clear goals and measurable outcomes so clients can track progress and follow a practical path toward the changes they seek.