Jeff Hansen

Jeff Hansen has worked in behavioral health for the last 17 years, including work with adults experiencing serious and persistent mental illness and adolescents having mental health and/or substance abuse issues. He is currently the lead psychotherapist for the Dual Diagnosis inpatient assessment and treatment program at the University of Minnesota, Fairview.

Jeff’s areas of interest include individual and group therapy with children, adolescents, and adults and he appreciates contemporary psychodynamic, humanistic, and developmental approaches of psychotherapy and case conceptualization.

Jeff’s areas of specialty include:

Child through Adult psychological assessment (personality and cognitive functioning)
Codependency
Dual Diagnosis (substance abuse and mental health problems)
Health Psychology
Latter stages of chemical dependency recovery
Psychotherapy of mood disorders
Trauma
Family therapy

“In light of my professed appreciation of contemporary psychodynamic theory, I not only value the counseling relationship and how our history of relationships changes us throughout life, but also the relation we have with ourselves and the importance of considering personality in treating individuals encountering difficulty.”

Education & Professional Activities

In addition to his current employment, Jeff is completing his doctoral degree in counseling psychology at the University of St. Thomas’ School of Professional Psychology. Jeff completed his Bachelor of Science degree in addiction counseling at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and a Master of Arts degree in Counseling Psychology at St Mary’s University in Minneapolis. He has previously completed clinical practicum training arrangements with adjudicated adolescent sex offenders, preschool children diagnosed with autistic spectrum disorders, and LGBT adults experiencing Chemical Dependency difficulties in an outpatient setting.