About Harold
Harold "Lanny" Monson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of practice. He focuses on helping people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or powerless regain a sense of control. Lanny listens closely and works to build practical steps forward that fit each person's life.
He draws on a range of approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with attention to how thoughts, relationships, and behaviors interact.
Background and approach
He often uses simple exercises people can try between meetings to test what helps. Lanny has long experience with trauma, substance issues, and grief. He has also worked with people dealing with ADHD, autism spectrum concerns, and chronic health challenges.
That background informs how he adapts pacing and expectations to each person's situation. He has served in many community settings, including correctional facilities, military-related programs, and crisis services. Those roles shaped his interest in power and motivation, and led him to develop a practical framework he calls "Displaced Power" and "the power within."
Lanny earned a Bachelor of Science from Brigham Young University and a Master of Science in Family and Human Development from Utah State University. He completed a Post-Master's Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy and practices in Utah as an LMFT. He welcomes conversations with people who want clear, steady help getting unstuck.
Approaches that translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's concerns, then shaping sessions around their goals and values; it helps with relationship strain, self-esteem, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and uses practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try different methods and adjust based on what actually moves things forward.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visible cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, quick coaching, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it easier to schedule consistent work and to practice strategies between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Washington
- Languages
- English
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