Terry Hasenzahl, LMFT

Terry Hasenzahl is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She offers a calm, warm presence and aims to help people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. Her tone is engaging and nonjudgmental so clients can begin to make change at their own pace.

She works with adults on stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, grief, self-esteem, and relationship struggles. Terry also supports people coping with life changes, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, and issues that surface around parenting, blended families, and aging. Her practice includes work on intimacy, sleeping, career strain, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue.

Terry’s approach is person-centered and strengths-based. She blends practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with skills from dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness to help people manage emotions and make concrete changes. Motivational interviewing is used to support readiness for change and narrative ideas help people reframe stuck stories.

Sessions include practical teaching, emotion regulation skills, and goal-focused conversation. She often provides psychoeducation and tailors methods to what each person finds helpful. The aim is to build trust, increase coping skills, and create clearer paths to everyday functioning.

Terry is licensed in Missouri and Nevada as an LMFT, and she brings decades of experience to common life stresses and more complex concerns. Prospective clients are encouraged to review details and schedule a match to see if her style fits their needs.

How certain approaches translate to online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on building trust and helping people describe what matters to them. It relies on empathetic listening and collaboration to set goals and guide progress. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills for changing unhelpful patterns to improve mood and functioning. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense feelings and relationship conflicts.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what helps. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to use and when to shift focus.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives by removing commute time, allowing shorter check-ins during a break, or avoiding the need to be on camera when audio works better. It also lets people continue care when managing chronic illness, caregiving duties, or travel schedules. Ask about available session arrangements and scheduling when you set up the first appointment.