Dr. Robert Hanser
Family-focused counselor providing clear guidance
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Robert
Dr. Robert Hanser welcomes parents and families who are struggling with relationship tensions, parenting challenges, addiction, or major life changes. He speaks plainly and listens closely.
He aims to give clear, concrete feedback that helps families make practical changes at home. Dr. Hanser is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC with twenty-five years of experience.
He draws from several ways of working so sessions match what a family needs. Sometimes he uses reflective listening and a client-centered stance.
Background and approach
Other times he offers more direct feedback and specific strategies. His work addresses substance use, trauma and abuse, anger, grief, anxiety, depression, and parenting strains. He also takes on blended family issues, divorce and separation, codependency, and compassion fatigue among other concerns.
He tailors goals to each family rather than following one fixed plan. In practice he mixes talking therapies with focused techniques that look at thoughts and behaviors. He has experience using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and he also uses EMDR when trauma processing is needed.
He adapts methods to what a family asks for and what seems most helpful. Sessions aim to identify realistic steps families can take between meetings. Expect practical options, straightforward feedback, and an emphasis on improving everyday life.
He works from Louisiana and is licensed as LPC in Texas and Louisiana.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online family work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s point of view and using reflective listening to help family members feel heard; this approach supports better communication and stronger relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors, which is useful for managing anxiety, anger, and parenting routines. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact for people struggling after abuse or other traumatic events.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest techniques that fit your family. Over a few sessions you and the therapist will adjust the plan so it feels practical and useful for everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around school, work, and caregiving. They also let families try different formats to see what works best for conversation, coaching, or trauma work.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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