About Harold
Harold "Lanny" Monson is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of practice. He helps people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or powerless and aims to restore a sense of agency in everyday life. He has worked with many who struggle with ADHD, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma.
He prefers plain talk and clear steps in sessions. He listens first, then helps people identify small, workable changes they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Many clients come for help with relationship stress, parenting strains, grief, or career shifts. He also supports people facing identity-related issues, including LGBT concerns. Lanny draws on a mix of approaches that match each person's needs.
He uses client-centered work to focus on what matters to the individual. He also borrows cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are layered in when they fit.
His background includes long-term volunteer and clinical roles in correctional settings, substance abuse programs, family advocacy on a secured military base, and sexual assault support. Those experiences shaped his focus on protecting vulnerable people and addressing injustice. He trained at Brigham Young University and Utah State University and completed a post-master's certificate in marriage and family therapy.
He holds the credential LMFT and practices from Utah. The independent practice is called "The Power Within," reflecting his emphasis on shifting from feeling powerless to finding agency.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person's experience and priorities, helping sessions stay grounded in what matters most to the client. It supports relationship stress, identity concerns, and parenting strains by centering the client's goals and perspective.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. It is practical and activity-based, which makes it easy to use in video or text formats for issues like anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress management.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches brief awareness and grounding practices that reduce reactivity and increase focus. These exercises can be guided in phone or video sessions and reinforced through short messaging between meetings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to select and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and comfort with different formats. Adjustments are made over time to improve fit and usefulness.
Online sessions offer flexibility and easier scheduling. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a work break or quick check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, homework help, or steady communication between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into a busy life.
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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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