Yalda Hasara, LCSW
Client-centered therapist focused on emotional regulation
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Yalda works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- California
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English, Persian
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Yalda
Yalda Hasara is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with nine years of clinical experience. She blends a client-centered approach with practical tools to help people manage strong emotions and life changes. Yalda listens first and builds a plan from there.
She focuses on what each person brings to the room and helps them notice strengths they can use. Sessions are collaborative and paced to the client's needs. She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change patterns that keep them stuck.
Background and approach
That can look like tracking triggers, testing unhelpful thoughts, and practicing new responses to stress or anger. Yalda has worked extensively with grief, depression, anxiety, trauma and emotional abuse. She also supports people facing family strain, relationship problems, addiction concerns, and major life transitions.
Anger and coping skills are a regular focus in her work. She offers services in English and Persian and works with people in California and beyond. Her style is warm, direct, and focused on practical change.
She aims to help people feel steadier and more able to handle daily demands. People who choose Yalda can expect a respectful space to talk through painful experiences and build clear strategies for moving forward. She emphasizes small, achievable steps that fit each person's life and goals.
What Yalda works with
Everything Yalda lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Yalda's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
Approaches Yalda lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Integrating Client-Centered Care and CBT Online
Yalda uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive space where the person's concerns guide the work. This approach focuses on listening, validating feelings, and building on each person's strengths to set goals and make changes.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to address patterns that feed anxiety, depression, panic, or anger. CBT helps by identifying triggers, testing unhelpful thoughts, and practicing concrete new behaviors between sessions to reduce distress.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Yalda will help clients try methods and adjust them based on what feels most helpful. She works with each person to match strategies to their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person work.
Questions people ask about Yalda
What concerns does Yalda commonly address?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and anger, and supports those facing relationship or addiction-related challenges.
What is her approach in sessions?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative. She blends empathic listening with practical cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has nine years of experience working in clinical settings with people dealing with mood disorders, trauma, and life transitions.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW, licensed in California.
Which languages are offered during sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Persian.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are accepted and can connect for online sessions from other countries.
What session formats are available?
She meets through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How are costs and starting steps handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.