About Tony
Tony Hansen is a licensed mental health counselor in Washington with 12 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma in a welcoming, nonjudgmental space. Tony uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people find relief.
Sessions focus on building skills that you can use between appointments. He pays attention to daily routines, sleep, and relationships when those things affect mood and functioning. He also works with people wrestling with identity questions, intimacy concerns, grief, and career stress.
How Tony works
That includes support for LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, and HIV/AIDS as listed in his areas of focus. Tony brings patience and straightforward guidance to these topics. In sessions he addresses communication problems, impulsivity, and substance use.
He helps people sort out family of origin matters, blended family issues, and forgiveness work. He also supports those coping with chronic pain, illness, or disability and related emotional strain. Tony blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered methods, and Existential Therapy.
He works collaboratively to tailor an approach to each person’s needs and goals.
Tony lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Tony works with
The areas below are the ones Tony selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Washington |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical techniques to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skill training in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness for people struggling with intense emotions or impulsivity.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Tony collaborates with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and situation. He adjusts strategies over time based on what helps most and what feels manageable for the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let you see facial cues for richer discussion. Phone sessions can use less bandwidth and work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging provide ongoing support between sessions and let people share updates in writing. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy schedule while still using ACT, CBT, or DBT techniques effectively.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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