Clients regularly share that they appreciate our proactive approach providing solution-focused direction, skilled feedback, and helpful tools built around a counseling/therapy model that will encourage you in personal and relationship health, healing, and restoration. We specialize in working with adult clients dealing with issues of relationship challenges (marriages and couples), life transitions, divorce recovery, career changes, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, abuse and trauma, and a lost sense of direction.
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I am a graduate of Bethel Theological Seminary with a Master's Degrees in Marriage and Family Therapy and am licensed by the State of Minnesota as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I specialize in marriage counseling and individual counseling dealing with relationship issues, depression, anxiety, grief, and loss of hope.
We specialize in working with adult clients facing significant life challenges which can lead to feelings of uncertainty, anxiety, depression, grief, loss of hope, fear of the future and/or a lost sense of purpose and direction.
Working from a solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral, and narrative approach, we offer practical, research-based tools and resources which provide insight, skilled feedback, a path to restoration, and hope for the future.With over 65 percent of our work dedicated to couples or individuals working on relationship issues - we have a unique understanding of the pressures relationships are under today.
Working from a solution-focused, cognitive-behavioral, and narrative approach, we offer practical, research-based tools and resources which provide insight, skilled feedback, a path to restoration, and hope for the future.With over 65 percent of our work dedicated to couples or individuals working on relationship issues - we have a unique understanding of the pressures relationships are under today.
These are our goals for MarriageRenew - the hope and reality of beginning again, restored, revived, replenished, youthful, strong and long-lasting - "as if new again." MarriageRenew is not just another counseling, coaching, or therapy model for relationships. Currently there are a number of effective and successful models available - each based on solid clinical research.
Discernment counseling is a targeted approach for "mixed agenda" couples where one partner desires reconciliation and renewal of the relationship, while the other partner has expressed consideration of ending it.
Currently a focus of research at the University of Minnesota, Discernment Counseling acknowledges that couples who have different motivations, yet are faced with a crisis or decision point, may actually be hampered through methods of traditional marriage counseling.In Discernment Counseling we help individuals and couples decide whether to try to restore their marriage to health, move towards divorce, or take a time out and decide later.
Currently a focus of research at the University of Minnesota, Discernment Counseling acknowledges that couples who have different motivations, yet are faced with a crisis or decision point, may actually be hampered through methods of traditional marriage counseling.In Discernment Counseling we help individuals and couples decide whether to try to restore their marriage to health, move towards divorce, or take a time out and decide later.
The duration of counseling depends on many factors, but solution-focused, cognitive, brief therapy is considered among the most rapid in terms of results obtained with an average of 12-16 sessions. Other forms of therapy, like psychoanalysis, can take years.
What enables solution-focused, cognitive, brief therapy to achieve goals more quickly, is its highly instructive nature and the fact that it makes use of homework assignments between sessions.Solution-focused, cognitive therapy is time-limited in that it helps clients understand at the very beginning of the process that there will be a point when the formal therapy will end.
What enables solution-focused, cognitive, brief therapy to achieve goals more quickly, is its highly instructive nature and the fact that it makes use of homework assignments between sessions.Solution-focused, cognitive therapy is time-limited in that it helps clients understand at the very beginning of the process that there will be a point when the formal therapy will end.
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Michelle Johnson
Mar 31, 2021
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Tori Miller
Mar 28, 2021
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I don't know where I would be today if Gary was not a part of my healing. He took the situation that my family and I were going through and he put all the pieces together and gave great direction and advise. He taught me how to set up boundaries in a loving and caring way. He believed in me when I was a shell of myself. He educated me on behaviors that I had no idea existed and taught me how to overcome and deal with them when they cycled around again.
He is genuine, kind and a caring counselor who is excellent at what he does.
He is genuine, kind and a caring counselor who is excellent at what he does.
Shelly Ahl
Mar 27, 2021
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I have been seeing Gary Hanson for the past couple years after the sudden and tragic death of my brother! He has helped me more than I ever expected. I never thought I would find joy in anything again, but he’s helped me work through the pain and struggle of that tragedy...along with struggles with my immediate family as well. He is a very mild mannered gentleman, yet still challenges me when needed. Would highly recommend therapy and would highly recommend Gary Hanson.
The Gudmunsons
Mar 21, 2021
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We have been seeing Gary for four years. He goes above and beyond couples or marriage counseling and helps with all aspects of life, including your professional life, your relationships with others, your mental state, etc. I love his holistic approach to therapy and we have found that improving the pieces of our life outside of our marriage, has brought us closer together and made my husband and I a better functioning team at home. We have never worked with a therapist who has done this, but love this style and this is why we continue to see Gary. He has helped us through many issues and obstacles
Briana Scalo
Mar 14, 2021
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Gary was tremendously helpful in helping my husband and I navigate the loss of both of my parents, one being quite sudden and unexpected. He gave us the resources and tools we needed to manage our grief and sadness while raising our two young children. We are forever grateful for his counsel and support.
