Bente Hansen

Bente Hansen is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California with two decades of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and low self-esteem. Her approach is respectful and direct, aimed at practical change that fits each person’s life.

Bente adapts conversations and plans to what a client needs right now. She uses approaches like attachment-based work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral tools, emotionally focused techniques, and psychodynamic ideas to guide sessions. These tools help with everyday problems such as communication breakdowns, motivation, and coping with loss.

Clients who speak English or Danish can work with her. Her background includes long-term clinical practice in California and experience supporting people through caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, workplace difficulties, and substance concerns. She also offers help around divorce and separation related challenges.

Sessions tend to focus on clear steps you can try between meetings. Bente helps people notice patterns, test new ways of relating, and build skills for handling tough moments. She explains things plainly and keeps goals concrete.

Starting therapy involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability. Bente presents therapy as a partnership where the client’s goals and pace guide the work together.

Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how people give and expect support and helps them try different ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It gives concrete strategies to test new behaviors and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on feelings in relationships and helps people notice and change interaction patterns that cause pain.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to goals and preferences. That means checking in about what feels useful and adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week and cut travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and let people join from wherever they are without being on camera if that helps. Licensed professionals and therapists can use these flexible arrangements to focus on clear goals, skill building, and improving communication and coping skills.