About Therapy
Choose your unique path.
Therapy is not a set procedure. It’s not a program where you follow steps to get better.
Whatever you’ve dealt with has left you feeling mired in the mud. The straight path forward has only led to getting more bogged down, more buried under challenges, obstacles, and doubt.
Therapy is about learning the best ways to reassert control over your life, and that path is always unique to you. It is informed by your culture, upbringing, significant experiences (good and bad), current situation, and other factors that inform who you are and how you got here.
I offer a hand to hold.
Trauma strips away your agency and peace. It injures you so deeply, you might not even be aware of it. The scars from that injury are visible as anxiety, stress, depression, and fear.
By partnering with me, you gain a supportive guide who will walk you through the difficult ground of your experiences. We find the trails that lead you through the dark lands back out into the open fields where you can thrive.
I take a collaborative, conversational, and informal-seeming approach to therapy. I am here to be present and on your side while bringing kindness, nonjudgment, compassion, and openness to your experiences and circumstances. We all need more of these things. To many – like you – they’re like an oasis in the desert.
Therapy offers tools for life.
One key aspect of therapy is learning tools, methods for processing your inner thoughts and distilling “what you want” from the storm swirling inside your head.
These tools can take on many forms and will be tailored to your needs and situation, but once you learn them, you don’t unlearn them.
You will automatically use these tools when life throws challenges at you. You practice them, start using them unconsciously, and as you do, they become more effective.
Without even realizing it, you will be much more capable than you ever believed possible.
Our work is based on trust and collaboration.
Ultimately, my process is to meet you where you are, right now, and from there, we work together to find your way forward.
I am not the detached, clinical professional, silently writing in my notebook and making judgmental grunts. I am your partner and your guide.
Only you have lived your life; nobody else can tell you your experiences.
About Felecytie “Fey” Hanson, LMFT
I have a lifetime of experience and practice.
My passion in my practice is helping people find their true selves buried under the suffocating weight of the trauma and abuse they have survived.
I am not a stranger to therapy. I have had good and not-so-good therapists, and those experiences helped inform the kind of therapist I wanted to be, both in what I want to do and what I want to avoid.
My upbringing discouraged me from seeking help outside of an insular community, so I know firsthand how powerful taking that first step is.
Seeking therapy doesn’t mean you are weak. It means you are wise enough to admit that you need help, and strong enough to take that step toward healing. Once you take that step, every step after it gets a little easier.
Here’s a little about my training.
I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California (LMFT #119674).
I received my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. My education focused on somatic psychology, which studies how the mind and body affect each other.
My experiences and passions led me to focus on all kinds of trauma, its causes, and how to manage and heal from it.
Beyond being your guide and therapeutic partner…
I am a wife and mother. I find my peace and center in forests and near the ocean.
A good story and board games bring me joy. I relax on my Catio with my two black cats and enjoy music.
I’m taking up embroidery as a new hobby.