About Terry
Terry Hasenzahl is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She offers a warm, down-to-earth approach that helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or worn out. Terry listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Many come for help with anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship strain, addiction, and ADHD. She also supports people coping with life changes, career stress, chronic health issues, and caregiver burden.
Background and approach
Terry aims to build trust quickly so clients feel understood and can try new ways of coping. Her sessions emphasize collaboration. Terry draws on client-centered work to follow the person's goals and strengths.
She blends structured tools from cognitive behavioral methods with mindfulness and emotion-regulation skills when those fit the need. Terry has worked in Missouri and Nevada settings and brings experience from a range of problem areas, including trauma, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She uses motivational interviewing to help people resolve mixed feelings about change.
Sessions are practical and straightforward. Clients often leave with small, doable experiments to try between meetings. The focus is on learning skills that reduce intense emotions, improve sleep, and make daily life feel more manageable.
How Terry’s Methods Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's lead. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps clients name goals and strengths. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear, practical exercises to change patterns in thinking and behavior. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing ADHD-related habits by breaking problems into small, testable steps.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches emotion-regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These techniques help when emotions feel overwhelming, when impulsivity is a problem, or when relationships are strained.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Terry will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, values, and daily life. That means trying different tools and adjusting the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy makes sessions easier to fit into busy schedules. Video calls are good for in-depth work, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and live chat or text messaging are helpful for short check-ins or coaching-style support. These options let people practice new skills between meetings and stay connected when travel or time makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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- 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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