Bertrille Hookfin
Supportive, practical therapy for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Alabama
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Bertrille
Bertrille Hookfin draws on a client-centered approach to guide parents and individuals through often painful family and personal struggles. She practices with direct, supportive care and begins by meeting each person where they are. Sessions focus on practical steps parents can try at home and clearer ways to talk about what's happening in the family.
Bertrille brings 22 years of experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to her work in Louisiana.
Background and approach
Her background includes experience with children from about age five through adults and with people who have special needs. She blends several methods to match the situation, including cognitive strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and trauma-focused tools when past events get in the way. Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are also part of her toolbox.
In a typical meeting she listens first, then helps set small, doable goals. Conversations aim to reduce worry, manage stress, and improve sleep and routines. For parenting concerns she offers straightforward ideas that parents can try between sessions.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, trauma, ADHD, and challenges around intimacy and identity. Additional areas she addresses include caregiver stress, blended family issues, attachment concerns, and body image. Bertrille is licensed as an LCSW and LICSW and practices in Louisiana.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered through multiple online formats to fit different family schedules.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an accepting space and following the person's lead. In practice that means the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients identify goals that feel manageable and relevant. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep, and parenting routines.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that gently works with disturbing memories to reduce their impact. It is often used when past events continue to cause strong emotional or physical reactions. Bertrille uses these approaches together so therapy matches each person's needs rather than following one fixed method.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with clients to test methods and adjust as goals change. That collaboration means clients help choose what feels most helpful and realistic for their family life.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to attend from home, juggle parenting needs, and keep continuity when life gets busy. The variety of formats supports ongoing work on stress, routines, trauma processing, and parenting practices without requiring long commutes.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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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