Harold "Lanny" Monson
Skilled family therapy focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Utah, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Harold
Harold "Lanny" Monson is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on family and parenting concerns. He brings 25 years of experience to sessions and aims to help people feel more capable in their everyday lives. He listens carefully and works to shift patterns that leave people feeling powerless.
Many people come for help with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and parenting questions. He draws on straightforward, practical methods in session.
Background and approach
He uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's lead and build understanding. He uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. He also integrates the Gottman Method for relationship work and mindfulness practices to reduce reactivity.
Monson has experience across a wide range of life challenges. His background includes long work with people affected by trauma, substance abuse, and domestic violence. He has also worked with aging and geriatric issues, autism spectrum concerns, and people facing chronic illness or cancer.
This variety informs how he tailors sessions to each person’s situation. He trained at Brigham Young University and Utah State University, and completed a post-master's certificate in marriage and family therapy. He holds an LMFT credential and has supervised other therapists during his career.
His practice is called "The Power Within," reflecting his interest in helping people regain control and hope. Sessions are offered in English and Harold practices from Utah. He is open to working with international clients and uses multiple online formats.
He describes therapy as a collaborative process and adapts methods to fit each person’s goals and life context.
Online approaches that fit family and parenting needs
Harold combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral strategies to address family and parenting challenges. Client-Centered Therapy means he follows the person's concerns, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs space to be heard and respected.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and testing the thoughts that drive reactions. He uses CBT to help people try new behaviors at home, manage anxiety, or change patterns that hurt relationships. The Gottman Method gives concrete tools for improving communication and handling conflict in relationships and parenting situations.
Finding the right approach happens together. He discusses options with each person and adjusts methods to match goals and preferences. That collaborative planning makes it easier to pick techniques that work for a family’s day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let conversations feel more like in-person meetings, phone sessions work when schedules are tight, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or follow-up between sessions. These formats make it easier to get consistent support while juggling family responsibilities and distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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