About Ursula
Ursula Hanson is a licensed social worker practicing in Maine. She holds a LCSW, which means she is a licensed clinical social worker, and brings 18 years of experience to her work. Ursula has experience across community mental health, independent practice, non-profits, and schools.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable for someone who is anxious or unsure. Ursula takes a straightforward, compassionate approach. She listens first and adapts the conversation to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps for stress, anxiety, self-esteem, grief, and coping with life changes. She also helps with career stress, compassion fatigue, and relationship concerns in individual conversations. Her background includes consulting with educators and offering yoga and mindfulness classes in elementary schools.
That mix of settings helps her blend practical skills with calm, present-moment practices. In session she uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people notice patterns and try small, doable changes. Ursula emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a strengths-based view.
She works with people to set goals that feel useful and realistic. Conversations aim to build confidence, improve self-love and body image, and support forgiveness where it matters. For someone weighing therapy, she focuses on clear next steps and simple strategies.
The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle. Ursula encourages anyone feeling overwhelmed to reach out and start the matching process.
How Ursula’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s goals and preferences at the center. In practice this means conversations follow what matters most to the client and the therapist adjusts pacing and focus to match. This approach helps when someone needs empathy and clear direction rather than a fixed agenda.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is practical for anxiety, stress, low mood, and career-related worry because it gives straightforward tools to try between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These practices pair well with other skills and can be used during short breaks or before a stressful conversation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide whether to emphasize client-centered support, CBT exercises, mindfulness practices, or a mix of these strategies.
Online formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people see facial cues and work through exercises together, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility so therapy can fit work, family, and daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English