About Tori
Tori Hankey is a Licensed Professional Counselor who blends practical therapy with a warm, direct style. She uses straightforward conversation and respectful listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship difficulties. Tori draws on her counseling training and her life experience to offer calm guidance when problems feel overwhelming.
She holds a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Arts in Italian Studies from the University of Houston.
Background and approach
Before counseling, Tori spent sixteen years working as a professional dog trainer and running her own business. That background shapes how she interacts with people and with the therapy environment. Tori brings animal-assisted work into sessions when appropriate, using a therapy dog to help clients feel grounded and less tense.
This presence can make talking about hard topics easier and help lower stress in the moment. She works with adults facing trauma and abuse, addiction and sexual addiction, mood disorders including bipolar, psychosis, grief, and spiritual concerns. Her approach is practical and goal-oriented.
Clients can expect help building coping skills, improving communication, and clarifying values. Tori also focuses on attachment and relationship patterns and on strengthening connections with others. People who choose her often seek a counselor who combines clinical approaches with faith-informed reflection.
She aims to support clients as they reach meaningful goals, develop healthier habits, and move through life changes in ways that feel true to them.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Tori often draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in her work. ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters most, and take committed steps toward those values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and communication, which can help with relationship stress, attachment issues, and intimacy concerns.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Tori collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adapts strategies as progress unfolds so clients stay involved in shaping their care.
Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into busy days and keeping momentum between appointments. Because specific session formats are not listed in her biography, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to schedule brief check-ins, reduce travel time, or continue therapy while managing work and family demands. Licensed professionals, including therapists like Tori, aim to make sessions usable and focused on real-world change rather than on technical details of the meeting itself.
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What this counselor 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