Therapist profile
Brenda Hanson, LSCSW, LISW
Kansas LSCSW LISW - Family and parenting focus
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- Anxiety and depression
- Parenting strain
- Attachment issues
About Brenda
Brenda Hanson is a Kansas licensed therapist with the credentials LSCSW and LISW and 41 years of clinical experience. She focuses on common household stresses and emotional difficulties people bring from home. Her work covers anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and challenges such as ADHD and addiction.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people sort what matters most. Sessions are practical and focused on skills people can try between meetings. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address thought patterns and values-based change.
Brenda also works from attachment-informed ideas to look at how early relationships shape current responses. That helps when people are dealing with abandonment, codependency, blended family dynamics, or caregiver stress. She brings decades of clinical experience to these patterns without relying on jargon.
Her approach includes Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation and Client-Centered techniques that keep the person’s priorities central. She helps with concrete problems like sleep and eating concerns, communication problems, and anger management as well as long-term issues such as chronic illness or aging-related stress.
Brenda’s practice supports adults facing life changes such as divorce, career shifts, or midlife reassessment. People who want clear, steady guidance and practical tools to use at home may find her style useful.
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How Brenda’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current reactions and helps people understand patterns in communication and closeness. That can be useful for abandonment fears, codependency, and caregiving stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. It is practical and often used for sleep, eating concerns, anxiety, and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences and together decide which methods to emphasize. That collaboration helps shape session focus and homework between meetings.
Session format options are not specified in the biography, so confirm current online offerings before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit meetings into daily life, for example by avoiding travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a work break, or enabling sessions when attending in person is difficult. Licensed professionals can use the therapeutic approaches above in remote sessions, adapting exercises and skill practice so they work in a household context.
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Experience
41+ years
Listed in
Kansas, Iowa
Languages
English
Questions
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What kinds of family or parenting concerns does she help with?
She helps people work through parenting strain, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and communication problems at home.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses practical conversation and skills-based techniques from CBT, ACT, DBT, and attachment-informed work to address immediate problems and ongoing patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 41 years of clinical experience practicing as a licensed social worker in Kansas.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the credentials LSCSW and LISW and is licensed in Kansas.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as session formats are not specified here.
How does the cost of sessions work?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started if I want to schedule with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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