Dianna Hansen

Dianna Hansen is a California LMFT with 14 years of clinical experience. She has worked in settings that include substance abuse treatment and care for military and veterans. Dianna lists stress, anxiety, LGBT issues, relationships, family concerns, trauma and abuse among the problems she addresses. Dianna frames therapy as practical help for people who have experienced trauma in ordinary life. She describes recovery as an embodied process and draws on her background as a bodyworker and yoga practitioner. This means sessions may include attention to how the body holds stress and ways to calm physical reactions as part of emotional work. Her work also addresses guilt, shame, questions about life purpose, panic and self-love. She uses methods she has found useful across many years of practice. Clients can expect a focus on processing experiences and finding workable strategies for daily life. Dianna reports integrating dialectical behavior therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing alongside movement-based practices. That combination is presented as ways to manage intense emotions, reduce panic symptoms, and process traumatic memories rather than as guarantees. People who are uncertain what comes next after a life change or who feel stuck in work or relationships may find this approach practical. The therapist aims to help clients make sense of what happened, learn skills for handling distress, and practice approaches that include attention to the body and breath.

How therapeutic approaches fit with online work

Dianna describes combining talk-based methods with body-aware practices. Dialectical behavior therapy focuses on learning concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and relationship effectiveness. It can help people who feel overwhelmed by big emotions or frequent panic by teaching short, repeatable skills to use in daily life.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is presented as a way to process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity. In practice this means guided sessions that aim to help people revisit difficult memories while tracking sensations and responses, with the goal of making those memories less activating over time.

Choosing the right mix of techniques is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That decision is reviewed and adjusted as progress is made.

The biography does not specify which session formats are offered online, so confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow brief check-ins when a shorter session is useful. Phone sessions may require less bandwidth and be a practical choice for a quick conversation, while video allows visual cues that support body-focused work.