About Dianna
Dianna Hansen is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 14 years of clinical experience. She practices in California and brings a background that blends talk therapy with body-centered methods. Dianna focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those working through trauma, relationship concerns, and identity questions.
She began her career in diverse settings, including holistic substance abuse treatment and work with people experiencing dissociation. That range shaped a practical, down-to-earth style.
Background and approach
Sessions often combine breathing, movement awareness, and conversational work to help clients feel more present and steady. Dianna emphasizes making sense of painful experiences. She sees trauma as something many people encounter in life, not only extreme events, and she helps them process how those events still affect daily thoughts and feelings.
This includes attention to guilt, shame, and building self-compassion. Her approach draws on a mix of evidence-based therapeutic techniques alongside body-oriented practices such as yoga and massage work from her earlier career. Clients can expect tools for managing panic attacks and for reducing overwhelming stress in the moment.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Dianna works with each person to set small, achievable goals. She aims to help people find clearer purpose, stronger self-love, and steadier relationships over time.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Dianna often blends talk-based evidence-backed techniques with body-focused practices to help people manage symptoms and heal from trauma. One commonly used method emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and building coping strategies; it gives practical tools to reduce overwhelm and handle strong reactions. Another approach she uses focuses on processing traumatic memories and reducing their ongoing impact, helping people reframe distressing experiences and feel less triggered by reminders.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options with each person and adapt methods to match goals, comfort, and day-to-day needs. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility for this kind of work. Video calls let people use visual cues and movement awareness during exercises, while phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework prompts, or when someone prefers written communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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