About Hannah
Hannah Tollefson is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing relationship struggles and trauma. Her approach is direct and respectful, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for someone who may be nervous about starting therapy.
Hannah keeps conversations practical and personal. She listens for patterns around attachment, abandonment, and control, then helps clients notice how those patterns show up in daily life.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking through communication problems, codependency, and issues tied to family roles or blended families. She tailors each plan to a client’s situation rather than applying the same steps to everyone. For people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, or career concerns, she works on small, achievable changes that build confidence over time.
Body image, eating-related issues, and feelings of emptiness are handled with steady pacing and attention to safety. Hannah uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current needs. She also draws from a client-centered stance to follow what the person wants to work on in session.
Together these approaches guide conversations about intimacy, commitment worries, and dissociation symptoms. Her style is compassionate and practical. She helps people break big problems into manageable tasks and supports progress at a realistic pace.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based therapy looks at patterns that develop in close relationships and how those patterns affect current worries like anxiety, intimacy concerns, and abandonment fears. In practice that means talking about relationship history and noticing how it shows up in everyday reactions. Client-centered therapy centers the person’s experience and priorities, so sessions follow what the client wants to work on and move at a comfortable pace. This approach helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to make their own decisions about change.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to identify what fits a person’s needs and goals, and adapts methods as progress is made. Clients can expect joint decisions about focus areas, pacing, and strategies throughout care.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls let people have longer sessions with face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when scheduling a short appointment during a break. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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