About
Dr. Brian Hansen is a clinical psychologist, executive coach, well-published author, and speaker with over 15 years of direct client experience specializing in leadership development, trauma-informed personal transformation, and full-spectrum executive performance optimization.
He works with high-performing executives, teams, and organizations to drive radical, lasting change by transforming leaders from the inside out.
Renowned for his teaching as a professor at BYU and founder of a thriving private psychotherapy clinic, Dr. Hansen integrates deep expertise in values-based leadership, formative childhood experience analysis, and lifestyle transformation — including fitness, diet, meditation, and supplementation strategies — to help executives not only heal, but thrive under the intense demands of high-stress leadership. He prioritizes the personal happiness, health, and authenticity of every individual at a corporation as the true lifeblood of leadership excellence and business success.
As a well-published author and speaker, Dr. Hansen offers speaking and teaching services to businesses and organizations seeking to foster deeper values-driven leadership and sustainable transformation. He has authored Build Your Own Religion, a guide to living a spiritual life without organized religion, as well as Values-Informed Transformative Executive Coaching and Healing and Integrating Religious Trauma Syndrome. His contributions to the field have been honored with numerous awards, including the Rocky Mountain Research Scholarship for evidence-based mental health outreach and the Psi Chi Award for Excellence.
Dr. Hansen's research on successful psychotherapy outcomes has been featured at the International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy (ICCP) in Hong Kong, and his writings on multicultural variables in therapy have been presented at the American Psychological Association's Annual Conferences in Boulder, San Diego, and Honolulu. He has also been cited in leading journals such as the Journal of Pragmatic Case Studies and the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, further cementing his reputation as a thought leader in personal transformation, leadership development, and psychological health.
Through his unique synthesis of clinical insight, leadership coaching, and lifestyle mastery, Dr. Hansen delivers an unmatched approach to building leaders — and organizations — from the foundation of authenticity outward.
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