About Tori
Tori Hankey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who blends faith-informed care with practical therapeutic approaches. She draws on a background that includes a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling and years of hands-on experience working with animals to create a calm, steady presence in sessions. Tori helps people dealing with anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, mood disorders, and relationship or family concerns.
She also supports people coping with sexual addiction, psychosis, suicide loss, and spiritual questions.
Background and approach
Her work often focuses on restoring connection - with others and with faith - while building everyday coping skills. Her earlier career as a professional dog trainer and manager of dog care facilities informs an animal-assisted element in her practice. The therapy dog is used to help clients feel more grounded and to reduce stress during sessions when that approach is appropriate.
Tori uses several practical therapies such as cognitive behavioral tools and emotionally-focused work to tackle patterns that cause pain. She also draws on attachment-based ideas and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and build healthier bonds. She brings four years of counseling experience and describes compassion as central to her work.
Sessions aim to set clear goals, teach coping strategies, and remove barriers to personal growth while recognizing each person's faith background and life story.
Therapeutic approaches that guide online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns to improve how people connect and respond in their current relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. Decisions about approach are made together and can be adjusted as therapy progresses.
Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, it can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a workday, or remove the need to arrange parking or childcare. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and attachment-based work to an online setting so people can focus on goals and coping skills without changing their daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- 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
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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