About Bertrille
Bertrille Hookfin is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She brings 22 years of experience to sessions and prefers to meet each person where they are. Her style emphasizes acceptance and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She uses a mix of approaches tailored to the individual, including client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means sessions often begin by listening closely to what matters most, then trying small changes that can ease daily stress and improve mood.
Background and approach
She also integrates mindfulness and other strategies when helpful. Many people seek help for anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, grief, ADHD, and challenges around sleep, eating, or self-esteem. Bertrille also addresses issues such as caregiver stress, attachment concerns, and recovery from loss or abuse.
She supports people navigating career shifts, parenting strain, or identity and gender-related questions. Bertrille has experience working with children as young as five and with adults, including people with special needs. She emphasizes clear, direct conversation and practical steps clients can try between sessions.
Motivational interviewing and EMDR are among the tools she may use when appropriate. Sessions are available by video, phone, chat, or messaging to fit different needs. Bertrille practices in Louisiana and works in English.
Her approach aims to build acceptance, manageable change, and stronger everyday coping skills.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on respectful listening and helping people describe what matters to them. The therapist follows the person's lead, offers empathy, and helps set goals that feel achievable. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and ADHD-related routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Bertrille will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. Decisions about which techniques to use are made together so the plan feels realistic and relevant to daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging are handy for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options let people fit therapy around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities while keeping the focus on steady, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Alabama
- Languages
- English
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