Dr. Hannah Carl (she/her) works with her patients to create a therapeutic environment that prioritizes connection, curiosity, and play. She is known for her warmth, humor, and radical genuineness. Hannah has experience working with individuals with both internalizing and externalizing behaviors, including disordered eating and body image issues, self-harm and suicidal behaviors, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and personality disorders. She also has a special interest in working with individuals and families whose lives have been touched by addiction, especially family members and friends of those with substance abuse disorders. Hannah is passionate about helping individuals identify and remove barriers to connection and community, and she has found that taking a directive and empathic approach results in profound change for her patients, who in turn develop self-respect and dramatically improve their relationships. She works with her patients to balance acceptance and change and become open and willing to do the courageous work necessary to grow.

Hannah is a licensed clinical psychologist and nationally certified school psychologist. She sees patients in person in Chicago, and she is licensed through PSYPACT to provide telehealth services across state lines. She completed her doctoral degree in School Psychology at The Chicago School and has worked in psychiatric hospital settings, partial hospitalization programs, therapeutic schools, transition schools, and private practice. Hannah works with individuals across the lifespan, with a special focus on emerging adults. She has specialized training in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and exposure and response prevention (ERP). She approaches therapy with a blend of each, depending on her patient’s needs, with a focus on living a valued life, prioritizing integrity, increasing psychological flexibility, and improving relationships.

Hannah also works to role model healthy behaviors for her clients, and she spends time outside of the office (and as much as she can in the office) moving toward her values of community, environmental justice, adventure, creativity, and play. She enjoys spending time chasing adventures with her husband, reading at home with her cats, and playing games with loved ones. She is a dancer (modern and lindy hop), singer, wanderlust enthusiast, amateur gardener, tag-along backpacker, fair weather cyclist, abashedly devoted pickleball player, and city homesteader (she will make you a loaf of sourdough if you ask). She absolutely wants to talk to you about your pets, your existential dread, and your niche hobbies.