About Terry
Terry Hasenzahl offers a calm, straightforward presence for people feeling overwhelmed or stuck. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience and practices in Missouri.
Background and approach
Terry meets clients where they are and helps them take small, practical steps toward relief and clearer thinking. Her sessions are warm and direct.
She focuses on building trust and listening carefully to what matters most to each person. Conversations are aimed at helping clients notice patterns, try new ways of coping, and make choices that match their values.
Terry uses a mix of hands-on strategies and reflective work. She draws on client-centered methods to follow what matters to the person.
Cognitive-behavioral techniques help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness skills support better focus and calmer responses. She also brings tools from motivational interviewing and dialectical behavior therapy to address motivation, self-control, and intense emotions.
That variety allows sessions to be tailored to common problems such as anxiety, depression, grief, relationship stress, addiction concerns, and parenting strain. Terry’s background includes work across many life stages and challenges.
She helps people navigate career stress, caregiving burdens, chronic health issues, blended family dynamics, and midlife transitions. Her goal is practical progress: clearer choices, fewer crises, and stronger coping day to day.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities. In practice this means the therapist reflects concerns back, helps people clarify goals, and adjusts the pace to what feels manageable. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers tools for managing strong emotions and improving self-control through skills in distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before, then try methods together to see what fits. Plans get adjusted as progress is made so sessions stay focused on practical, achievable steps.
Online therapy makes those approaches easier to access. Video calls let people work face to face when travel is difficult. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick support, homework prompts, and tracking progress between sessions. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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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