Hana Subašić-Sullivan, MA, LMFT

(She/Her/Hers)

About Hana

As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I have a deep understanding of how our relationships impact and are impacted by our emotional and mental well-being. I help adults and couples learn how to connect emotionally, navigate conflict and communication barriers fairly, and develop authentic and compassionate ways to attune. I have helped many intercultural couples design a road map when there isn’t one in place.

Our primary caregivers and early attachment figures create the foundation for our emotional and mental well-being. However, many of us did not receive the healthy tools and strategies needed to navigate life’s challenges. I am passionate about working with developmental trauma, inner-child wounding, and attachment injuries, in order to help you become the person, partner, parent, child, community member or friend you desire to be.

Our pain, trauma and suffering often manifest as symptoms of anxiety, depression, PTSD, or feeling stuck or lost. Fortunately, neuroscience tells us that our brain’s neuropathways can change and be rewired for health. I integrate somatic modalities, meaning using the body, such as Sensorimotor therapy, Brainspotting, AIR Network, breath work, mindfulness, and yoga in order to help build healthy emotional expression, strong emotional regulation, and overall improved health and connection to self and others.

As a first mother, first generation immigrant, former child refugee, and Bosnian-American woman, my identities inform the way I show up in the therapeutic space. I enjoy working with people from all walks of life and desire to live in a world that uplifts and honors historically marginalized groups of people.

Favorite quote:

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl

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INNER CHILD/YOUNGER ME:

“I was raised and conditioned to be the tough, protective big sister to everyone–overly responsible, sensible, and dependable. I also just wanted to be a little girl: to have fun, to have a present, emotionally available attachment figure who was not in survival mode. I wanted to be a child.”

an illustration of a woman lifting a child version of herself up