About Brenda
Brenda Hanson helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She is a licensed clinical social worker with credentials as LSCSW and LISW and brings 41 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on practical strategies that make daily life easier.
Sessions address worries such as depression, panic, sleep problems, addictive behaviors, and coping with change. She also helps people with issues around intimacy, relationships, body image, and identity concerns within the LGBT community.
How Brenda works
Her approach is warm and straightforward. Brenda uses a mix of methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based ideas, and client-centered work. She teaches skills for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and recognizing unhelpful thinking patterns.
Brenda has worked in clinical settings for decades and draws on that background to offer steady guidance. She pays attention to practical challenges like caregiving stress, chronic illness, and career strain while also addressing deeper patterns such as attachment wounds, abandonment feelings, and codependency. Sessions are offered in English and provided to people located in Kansas.
Therapy can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, prospective clients select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Brenda lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
What Brenda works with
The areas below are the ones Brenda selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LSCSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 41 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kansas |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters most and take small actions toward those values. It uses mindfulness and acceptance skills to reduce getting stuck on painful thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments to change mood and behavior. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers clear skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to select methods that match their goals and needs. That might mean combining ACT with CBT exercises or using DBT skills for emotional regulation while attending to attachment patterns.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction and teaching skills visually. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for brief check-ins. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and ongoing life demands.
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