Staff Therapist
Hannah Bowen, LCSW
Hannah Bowen (she/her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who approaches therapy from a holistic, developmental, and systems-oriented perspective. She believes meaningful change occurs when clients feel deeply understood, not only through their thoughts and emotions, but also through their relationships, life experiences, and connection to their bodies.
Hannah earned her Master of Social Work from Erikson Institute, where she developed a strong foundation in child development and human relationships across the lifespan. She then completed an advanced clinical social work fellowship at the Yale Child Study Center, receiving specialized training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, family systems work, trauma-informed care, and the contextual application of evidence-based treatments for children, adolescents, and families.
Following her fellowship, Hannah served as an outpatient trauma therapist and home-based clinician with Yale’s Intensive In-home Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS) program. Working alongside children, adolescents, caregivers, schools, and community providers gave her a deep appreciation for the complex systems that shape emotional well-being and reinforced her belief that healing rarely occurs in isolation.
At the heart of Hannah’s work is the therapeutic relationship. She approaches clients with warmth, curiosity, compassion, cultural humility, and playfulness, recognizing that a safe and collaborative relationship creates the foundation for growth. She honors the intersection of developmental, relational, cultural, and environmental influences while helping clients better understand the unique ways their histories have shaped their current experiences.
Hannah’s clinical orientation is integrative, trauma-informed, and evidence-based. Before developing a treatment plan, she seeks to understand the role that attachment experiences, family relationships, learning history, neurodevelopment, culture, and broader systemic influences have played in each client’s life. Together with clients and families, she develops individualized treatment plans that draw from the best available research while remaining responsive to each person’s strengths, values, and goals.
In addition to traditional talk and play therapy, Hannah incorporates principles from trauma-informed yoga and body-based interventions into her work. As a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), she views the body as an important source of information in the therapeutic process and integrates somatic practices when clinically appropriate. Her work emphasizes helping clients cultivate greater awareness of bodily sensations, nervous system regulation, grounding, mindful movement, and the connection between physical sensations, emotions, and thoughts. She believes these practices can complement psychotherapy by helping clients build greater emotional flexibility, resilience, and self-understanding.
Hannah specializes in the treatment of trauma, anxiety disorders (including OCD), ADHD, mood disorders, adjustment disorders, attachment concerns, and emotion dysregulation across childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. She works with individuals, parents, siblings, families, and therapy groups.
Her clinical work draws from a range of empirically supported approaches, including Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE), Parent Management Training (PMT), and family systems approaches. She also integrates expressive arts, narrative, play, movement, mindfulness, and somatic practices to help clients access emotions, strengthen self-awareness, and develop practical tools for everyday life.
Hannah has particular interests in complex and developmental trauma, attachment, identity development, anxiety and OCD, family relationships, and supporting children and adolescents through major life transitions. She is passionate about collaborating with clients to better understand not only what they are experiencing, but how those experiences are reflected in their minds, bodies, and relationships.
Hannah’s guiding philosophy is that healing is both relational and embodied. She believes every person deserves an opportunity to feel safe, tell their story, reconnect with their inherent strengths, and develop a compassionate relationship with themselves. Her hope is that therapy helps clients move beyond simply managing symptoms toward living with greater presence, flexibility, and alignment with what matters most
