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Dina Hankin, PhD

Culturally sensitive pediatric, adolescent, young adult psychologist

PSY 16387

SHE/HER

TELEHEALTH & IN-PERSON in Oakland & Berkeley, CA

I specialize in working with children, teens, young adults, and their families who are experiencing grief and loss from a chronic illness and are struggling to cope.

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As a pediatric, adolescent, and young adult clinician, I have spent two decades supporting patients with cancer and chronic illness, along with their caregivers and families. I understand the grief, trauma, uncertainty, and exhaustion that can come with medical care and repeated explanations. My work offers space for the emotions of your experience while helping you build tools to cope, reconnect with yourself, and remember that you are more than illness or its effects on your functioning, relationships, or cognition.

I provide individual, family, and couples therapy for children, teens, young adults, and families facing life-limiting or life-threatening medical conditions. I offer dedicated support and intervention for grief, behavioral challenges, parenting, and social isolation, while collaborating with schools and work places to secure essential accommodations and learning adjustments.

I've learned that while receiving a new or changing diagnosis, treatment, and in survivorship it is important to surround yourself with a team, including a therapist – who can empathize with the grief over the loss and changes of health, independence, typical individual and family development, and how to engage with school, work, social groups, and family.

Some approaches & theories I use:

  • CBT

  • Problem-Solving skills interventions

  • Integrative Psychology

  • Family systems theory

  • Developmental Psychology

  • Pediatric and Health Psychology

  • Psychodynamic processing of impact of illness on functioning

Who I work with:

  • children

  • teens

  • young adults

  • families

I specialize in:

  • Behavioral Issues

  • Caregivers

  • Child

  • Coping Skills

  • Integrative care

  • School Issues

  • Teen and Young Adult chronic health conditions

  • Trauma and PTSD

  • Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

My background:

  • In practice for 27 years

  • Attended Alliant University (previously California School of Professional Psychology, Alameda), PhD, Graduated 1997

  • Career spent doing both inpatient and outpatient work in the hospital setting

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