Dianna Hansen
Trauma-informed therapist blending body and evidence-based care
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dianna
Dianna Hansen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with 14 years of clinical experience. She began her MFT practice in 2012 and earned full licensure in 2018. Dianna blends her training with practical tools drawn from her background in bodywork, yoga, and music.
She speaks English and approaches therapy in a direct, down-to-earth way that many find approachable. Dianna focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship and family concerns, LGBT issues, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also addresses related struggles such as guilt and shame, panic attacks, questions about life purpose, and building self-love. Sessions are intended to help people process what has happened and find clearer ways forward in daily life. Her style mixes talk therapy with body-centered practices.
Dianna incorporates movement, breath awareness, and rhythm where useful to help people feel safe in their bodies while they work through difficult memories. She uses proven clinical tools such as dialectical behavior therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing alongside somatic practices like yoga. Clients can expect a practical, collaborative process.
Dianna aims to help people make sense of their experiences, develop skills for emotional regulation, and reduce distress from past and present stressors. Her work is informed by years across treatment settings, including holistic substance use programs and trauma care. Therapy with Dianna is presented as a step toward healing rather than a label.
She frames recovery as learning to live with the realities of life and to move forward with more ease and self-compassion.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Dianna draws from two main evidence-based approaches alongside somatic practices. Dialectical behavior therapy focuses on practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress. It helps people learn tools they can use day to day to reduce overwhelm.She also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, which is a structured method to process troubling memories so they feel less disruptive. When combined with body-focused practices like yoga and breath work, this approach aims to help people feel more grounded while they work through painful experiences.
Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Dianna will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then tailor techniques to what feels most useful. The plan can change as needs evolve so that therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online care offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions provide an audio option, and live chat or text messaging can support shorter check-ins and between-session contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to continue work on skills and processing in ways that match each person’s routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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