About Patricia
Patricia Hanson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and trauma. She speaks plainly and offers steady support while clients work through painful or confusing moments. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
Patricia uses a problem-solving mindset that centers the client's goals. She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. Sessions focus on skills people can use between meetings and steps they can take toward clearer thinking and calmer days.
Background and approach
With 19 years of experience, she brings a broad background in dealing with family conflict, parenting strain, anger, and self-esteem challenges. That experience includes working with people coping with major life changes and compassion fatigue. Patricia draws on what has helped others while staying open to each person's needs.
Her work often includes straightforward techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, paired with practical guidance for everyday life. Clients can expect a mix of discussion, skill practice, and planning for small, reachable changes. Patricia emphasizes collaboration and gradual progress.
Patricia is based in Minnesota and conducts sessions in English. She aims to create a calm, focused setting where people can try new approaches and build coping tools for stress, anxiety, and the challenges that follow difficult events.
CBT-informed approaches and flexible online care
Patricia commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. CBT helps with anxiety, stress, mood changes, and problems that keep repeating in day-to-day life, using concrete exercises and short-term goals.She combines CBT techniques with a collaborative process. Together the therapist and client identify priorities, try different strategies, and adjust what they do based on what feels useful. The goal is to find approaches that match the client's needs, goals, and preferences rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free option is needed. Live chat and messaging can support brief check-ins, homework discussions, or people who prefer writing between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, manage ongoing stress, and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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