Brenda Hanson

Brenda Hanson is a licensed social worker with more than 41 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anger, or major life changes. Brenda aims to help clients find clearer priorities and steadier ways to cope.

She uses practical conversations and goal-focused work to address concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and addiction. Her methods emphasize helping people notice what matters to them, build skills for managing strong emotions, and try new behaviors that match their values.

Brenda draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy. She blends these with client-centered listening so sessions focus on each person’s immediate needs and goals. Sessions typically involve gentle reflection, skill practice, and planning small steps forward.

Her background includes long experience supporting people through relationship strain, parenting challenges, work stress, health-related issues, and identity concerns. Brenda aims to help people strengthen self-esteem, improve communication, and reduce the intensity of upsetting reactions like anger.

People who choose her work with someone who offers steady presence and practical tools. She encourages realistic changes over time and helps clients track progress between sessions. Brenda’s practice is based in Kansas and she provides services in English as described on her profile.

How Brenda’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what truly matters to them and take meaningful action despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and problems like anger that get in the way of chosen goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors feed each other and offers concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, useful for worry, low mood, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to relationship patterns and how early experiences shape emotional reactions; it can help people understand and change patterns that fuel repeated conflicts or feelings of emptiness.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Brenda will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. Sessions often mix several approaches so the plan stays practical and personalized.

The therapist biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, and reduce travel time. It also supports steady, ongoing skill practice between sessions and helps people apply tools directly in their daily routines.