Welcome to ScienceWorks Behavioral Healthcare!

About Me

Hello! I’m Hannah Pollok, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Tennessee. I earned my Master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy from Lipscomb University, where I completed a Play Therapy specialization, and my work is grounded in a relational, culturally sensitive, and systemic approach.

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I support adults, couples, and families navigating neurodivergence, PMDD and hormone-related concerns, anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic illness, and relationship stress. My approach integrates Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy, expressive arts, experiential therapies, and other evidence-informed tools, always tailored to the person, couple, or family in front of me.

Our work together is collaborative, affirming, and practical. We’ll look at what is happening in your nervous system, relationships, identity, body, and daily life - not so we can reduce you to symptoms, but so we can understand the full picture and build a plan that helps you feel more steady, connected, and like yourself.

Couples & Families

Relationships can be both meaningful and complicated, especially when stress, neurodivergence, identity, chronic illness, or different communication styles are part of the picture. In couples and family therapy, I help clients slow down the patterns that keep them stuck and build more clarity, connection, and repair.

My work with couples and families draws from systemic, relational, family systems, and attachment-based approaches. The goal is not to decide who is “right,” but to understand how each person’s needs, history, and nervous system are shaping the relationship—and to create more workable ways of communicating, problem-solving, and staying connected.

Anxiety & Depression

Anxiety and depression can make life feel smaller, heavier, or harder to manage. You may feel stuck in overthinking, low motivation, irritability, shutdown, self-doubt, or cycles of avoidance that make it difficult to move toward what matters.

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In therapy, we’ll work together to identify the patterns keeping anxiety or depression in place and build practical tools for daily functioning. My approach may include CBT, Solution-Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, and other integrative strategies to help you understand your experience, reconnect with your strengths, and move toward meaningful change.

ADHD & Autism

For many people, ADHD or autism is recognized later in life - often after years of feeling misunderstood, overwhelmed, inconsistent, or “too much” in environments that were not built for their brain. A late diagnosis, or even the process of wondering whether you are neurodivergent, can bring relief, grief, clarity, and a lot of questions.

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I offer neurodivergence-informed therapy for ADHD, autism, and AuDHD, including support for burnout, identity, relationships, executive functioning challenges, and the emotional impact of masking. Together, we’ll focus on approaches that fit your actual nervous system and daily life, rather than forcing strategies that only work on paper.

Trauma

Trauma can affect how safe you feel in your body, your relationships, and the world around you. It may show up as hypervigilance, shutdown, avoidance, emotional reactivity, difficulty trusting others, or feeling disconnected from yourself.

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My approach to trauma is steady, compassionate, and paced. We’ll work on understanding how past experiences continue to shape present-day patterns while building tools for grounding, emotional regulation, self-trust, and relational safety. My training also includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Brainspotting.

Chronic Illness

Chronic illness and chronic pain can affect far more than physical symptoms. They can shape your energy, relationships, identity, work, mood, and sense of control. Conditions such as POTS, IBS, and other body-based health concerns can also interact with stress, anxiety, trauma, hormones, and neurodivergence in ways that are often missed or minimized.

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In therapy, we’ll look at the whole picture: how your body, environment, relationships, and coping patterns interact. Using approaches such as ACT, CBT, compassion-focused strategies, and relational support, we can work toward pacing, self-advocacy, nervous-system steadiness, and a more compassionate relationship with your body.

Women’s Health

I have a particular passion for supporting people navigating PMDD, PME, PCOS, perimenopause, menopause, and hormone-related mood changes. PMDD can be especially destabilizing because symptoms often follow a cyclical pattern that affects mood, relationships, identity, work, and daily functioning. These experiences can be further intensified by ADHD, autism, or AuDHD, as neurodivergence may affect sensory sensitivity, emotional regulation, executive functioning, interoception, and the ability to recover from overwhelm.

Therapy can help you better understand your patterns, anticipate vulnerable windows, communicate your needs, and build supports that fit your body and life stage. Whether you are navigating young adulthood, midlife transitions, chronic illness, or older adulthood, we’ll work toward more insight, steadiness, and self-trust.