Terry Hasenzahl
Compassionate marriage and family therapy for families
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Nevada
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Terry
Terry Hasenzahl is a Marriage and Family Therapist who connects with people facing relationship and family challenges. She writes in an approachable way and offers steady support to parents and partners dealing with stress, grief, addiction, or changes in family life.
Her style is warm and engaging, aimed at creating a trusting space where people can talk, reflect, and begin to make practical changes. Terry brings 25 years of experience and draws on several hands-on methods during sessions.
Background and approach
She uses client-centered work to follow each person’s priorities. She also applies cognitive behavioral techniques to help shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior strategies and mindfulness practices are used when people need tools for emotional regulation and staying present.
In sessions she mixes education with active skills practice. Conversations often include simple exercises, coaching around next steps, and ways to handle strong emotions. She also addresses topics like parenting, blended family shifts, caregiving stress, and recovery from substance use with practical, paced guidance.
Terry is licensed as an LMFT in Missouri and Nevada and draws on decades of practice to tailor approaches to each family’s situation. She works with people who want to improve relationships, manage life transitions, or find healthier ways to cope. The work begins by listening to what matters most and then choosing methods that fit each person’s goals.
Her focus is on steady progress, not quick fixes, so families can build more peaceful, sustainable routines and connections.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person’s priorities. Online sessions that use this approach start with questions about what matters most and then shape the work around those goals. This works well for family and relationship concerns where personal values and safety guide the pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. In video or phone sessions CBT often includes brief exercises, homework, and step-by-step plans to change routines and reactions. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday stresses.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers practical tools for handling intense emotions and improving relationships. Online DBT-style work focuses on skills training for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clear communication, which parents and partners frequently find useful.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Terry works collaboratively to decide what fits. She will review goals, try methods, and adjust based on what helps most. That way the plan reflects each person’s needs and preferences rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
Online therapy via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging adds flexibility for busy households. It lets families meet from home, use short check-ins between sessions, and keep progress moving when schedules are tight. These formats make it easier to practice skills in real life and keep therapy consistent during life’s changes.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Nevada
- Languages
- English
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