Hanna Ghabhain is an award-winning writer and Jungian psychotherapist exploring the intersections of intergenerational somatic memory, mythology, and ecology.

Ghabhain holds a master’s of counseling and bachelor’s of science in psychology with a minor in global health from Arizona State University. She has a clinical practice at Fit Mind Wellness in Glendale, Arizona, where she specializes in working with adults experiencing complex-PTSD with focuses including attachment wounds; childhood trauma; religious trauma; relational trauma such as narcissistic abuse; physical, sexual, emotional, spiritual, and/or mental abuse; and grief. She also provides arts-based therapy catered to creatives such as writers and musicians. As a psychodynamic clinician, she utilizes Jungian methods to support clients in identifying unconscious patterns and narratives impacting well-being. This type of therapy is often useful for those experiencing repetitive concerns as a result of living in a prolonged state of chronic trauma. She is further informed by Gestalt theories, Liberation Psychology, and Ecopsychology, which understand the Self in the context of culture, community, and nature. This holistic approach considers mental, emotional, physical, and social wellness. She is EMDR trained and take a somatic approach that emphasizes the ways the nervous system stores unconscious trauma and is also a deep reservoir of subconscious wisdom.

Ghabhain is an award-winning journalist and writer with 13 years of experience, and a Jungian scholar applying archetypal theories to mythology and exploring the intersections of somatic memory, myth, and ecology. She was a 2025 teaching fellow for ASU’s Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, lecturing on Jungian symbolism and archetypes in creative writing. As a journalist, she covered a variety of beats including politics, the courts, business, and education.

When not supporting therapy clients in re-storying their life narratives or researching mythology, she enjoys reading fiction, spending time in nature with friends, playing the bodhrán, writing fiction and poetry, and painting with acrylics.

Learn more about Ghabhain’s psychotherapy practice HERE.

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AWARDS:

• Excellence in Legal Journalism, 2016, Missouri Bar Association
• Investigative reporting, first place, 2018, Missouri Press Association (MPA)
• Best editorial pages, first place, 2016, 2017, 2018, MPA
• Best news or feature series, first place, 2017, MPA
• Best news feature series, first place, 2016, MPA
• Best story about history, first place, 2016, MPA
• Best special section, first place, 2016, MPA
• Best story about education, second place, 2016, MPA
• Government reporting, second place, 2018, MPA
• Military coverage, second place, 2018, MPA
• Best information graphic, second place, 2017, MPA
• Best news story, second place, 2017, MPA
• Best news story, third place, 2018, MPA
• Government reporting, third place, 2018, MPA
• Best overall design, third place, 2018, MPA
• Best headline writing, third place, 2017, MPA
• Best military story, third place, 2017, MPA
• Best outdoors story, third place, 2015, MPA
• Best news or feature special section, third place, 2015, MPA
• Tilghman Cloud Memorial editorial award, 2016, MPA