Hanna Stensby, M.A.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Hanna is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Founder of Flourish Mindset. She specializes in attachment, positive parenting, EMDR, trauma recovery, psychedelic assisted therapy, and Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She supports her clients in understanding how their early attachment to their primary caregivers impacts their romantic relationships. Using an attachment perspective, she helps her clients take actionable steps towards feeling secure and safe in their relationships.

Hanna also uses research-backed Gottman Method tools and education to help couples thrive in their relationships. Hanna is trained in the Gottman Method of Couples Therapy and uses this as her primary approach when working with couples. The Gottman Method helps couples communicate, manage conflict, and create deeper connections using research based tools and techniques.

Hanna has been working with couples, individuals, and families since 2016 and has advanced training in the areas of Gottman Method Couples Therapy, trauma recovery and attachment. As a trauma informed therapist and yoga instructor, Hanna incorporates the mind-body connection when healing past attachment wounds that lead to challenges in relationships. She’ll help you decipher the warning signs your body gives when you experience an overwhelmed state and teach you how to self-soothe so that you can have more productive and rational conversations with your partner. She will also help you understand and heal attachment wounding from your childhood or past relationships so you can have healthy and fulfilling relationships.

Hanna’s clients describe her as being able to probe and elicit new ways towards self-discovery and offer perspectives that help them understand their needs, and path forward. Clients have also shared they experience her presence as calming and nurturing while also sharing hard truths when needed. She will push you to the edge of your comfort zone, but with a gentleness that makes sure you never get hurt. Hanna identifies as an ally for BIPOC and the LGBTQ+ community and she actively engages in her own anti-racism work to check her privilege. She cultivates an environment of sex positivity and works with clients who are polyamorous and consensually non-monogamous.