Return to yourself.
Mental health counseling & body image photography
Relationship Anxiety | Religious Trauma | Chronic Illness | Body Image
Angie Hanson (she/her) MA, LMHC, LPCA
Hi, I’m Angie, the face in that picture. I’m a licensed mental health counselor working in Indiana and Kentucky. I support people healing from relationship wounds, religious trauma, chronic illness, and body image issues.
I help people get unstuck by resolving unprocessed feelings, making sense of their stories and context, and reconnecting deeply with themselves.
Recognizing our origin story and its present-day impact allows us to reclaim agency of our lives so we can address current challenges and embrace our lives in a way that feels aligned with who we are becoming.
Unfolding in the presence of another human is vulnerable and can be scary, but I believe there is a healing kind of medicine in being met here with kindness and acceptance.
If you’re looking for a mental health therapist who believes you, respects you, and wants to support you in holding the emotionally complicated nuances of your life with compassion, please reach out.
Learn more about me here.
Your body is not the enemy. It’s the messenger.
Your feelings, actions, symptoms, thoughts, or default coping habits are not random.
Your body and mind have adapted to endure the environments you’ve lived in.
Of course you feel this way.
What has shaped you? Do you need to maintain this shape?
What would have to happen in order to take a different shape?
In therapy, we explore your patterns and practice accepting their origins and getting curious about a path forward.
Concerning Issues
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Some people resonate with the terms masking, codeswitching, people pleasing, codependency, trust-issues. You may not have a word for it, but maybe you feel like for some reason everyone is allowed to be themselves but you.
I help folks understand why they operate the way they do and practice showing up differently in their relationships.
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Religion can touch anything: the meaning of life and death, your view of yourself, your purpose, your relationships, your decision making…
When something isn’t sitting right in this realm, it can be very pervasive. Maybe you start to question if you need to make big changes. Maybe what happened is over, but some aspects of it still haunt you.
This issue can dramatically range in severity. Particularly if religion and spirituality become linked to abuse or violence, the psychological impact can be devastating and disabling.
As a religious trauma therapist, I will provide space for you to sort through the significance of your experience without imposing my own beliefs, values, or judgments.
If you are looking for a faith-specific guide to support you within your religious framework, that is not me.
But if you are looking for a professional counselor who is committed to strengthening your ability to explore and discern what you believe for yourself, let’s talk about what that can look like.
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Chronic illness takes all kinds of forms and severities. It is common for people with chronic illness struggle with grief, anxiety, depression, major adjustments, discrimination, pain, accommodations, etc.
Chronic illness in itself is a lot to cope with, but often people experience additional psychological harm from other’s response to it.
In counseling with me, I will give you space to process what this experience is really like without giving you unsolicited medical advice, dismissing your experience, or insisting you feel differently about it.
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Maybe you’ve always struggled to like your body or maybe your body is changing into something you don’t yet recognize.
I help folks understand why they view their bodies the way they do, which often makes room for alternatives. I also offer body image therapeutic photography intensives to support exploration of new ways to be in and view your body.
Contact Me
Shoot me a message in the contact form to get started. I do my best to return messages within 48 hours during the business week.
Or, if you want to book a free 15-minute consultation to see if we’re a good fit before investing, click “Schedule a Free Consult.”