Kym Hansen-Duell

LMSW, ACSW

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Locations

Traverse City Clinic
700 E. Hammond Rd, Suite 200
Traverse City, MI 49686

Patient Ages

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Child
  • Older Adult

Kym is a licensed social worker who has practiced clinical therapy in an outpatient setting for over 20 years. Kym has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Central Michigan University and a Master of Social Work from Grand Valley State University.

Kym spent the early part of her career working at Great Lakes Community Mental Health helping to establish a Day Treatment Program for adults 55 and older who had transitioned from long term placement back into the community. Following that, Kym worked at the former Child Guidance Inc. as a clinical therapist.

Kym’s has experience in working with individual’s ages 5 to 90+, in individual, family and group therapy. Additional areas of experience include treating OCD, disordered eating, PTSD and veterans, and personality disorders.

In addition, she is a member of the Pine Rest Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Program treatment team, specializing in symptoms of borderline personality disorder and self-harming behaviors. She has extensive training in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and is the DBT Program Coordinator for the Traverse City Clinic.

Kym Hansen-Duell participates in the Diversity Collective.

Specialties

Treatment

  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD/ADD)
  • Depression
  • Eating Disorders
  • Panic Attacks/Panic Disorder
  • Parent and Child Issues
  • PTSD/Trauma/Abuse

Articles By Kym Hansen-Duell

How Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Can Help PTSD Symptoms

How Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Can Help PTSD Symptoms

How can trauma victims and people who struggle with PTSD get the help they may need? For some, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) may be the answer.

Bringing Awareness to Borderline Personality Disorder

Bringing Awareness to Borderline Personality Disorder

Learn more about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), one of the most misunderstood and stigmatized of all mental health conditions.

Tips on Developing Your Self-Compassion

Tips on Developing Your Self-Compassion

The practice of mindfulness is to simply observe our thoughts, feelings and actions without passing judgment. By practicing mindfulness, we can create a habit of awareness to the urge to self-judgment, replacing that self-judgment with...

Have a Better Day EVERY Day … with DBT Skills!

Have a Better Day EVERY Day … with DBT Skills!

Everyone can benefit from practicing DBT skills … These three in particular can help you learn to live a happier life!

G.I.V.E. Your Relationship a Boost!

G.I.V.E. Your Relationship a Boost!

Striving for relationship improvement with someone special to you? Try the G.I.V.E. method and see just how much more effective your connection to each other can be!

DBT: Helping Veterans Reclaim a Life Worth Living

DBT: Helping Veterans Reclaim a Life Worth Living

Wars have been fought for centuries but understanding the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a relatively new development. For many veterans, adjusting to civilian life can be a challenge. For veterans returning home with...

Resilience Building for Military Families

Resilience Building for Military Families

Military families deal with additional stressors that come with the job such as relocation, geographic isolation, and extended separation from family associated with deployment. This can double the amount of stress on military families.

Mindfulness Made Easy

Mindfulness Made Easy

Mindfulness can improve our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and help you be more resilient during stressful times. Don’t worry, you don’t need to do formal mediation to reap the benefits. Many routine activities lend...

How to Count Your Blessings When You’re Feeling Depressed

How to Count Your Blessings When You’re Feeling Depressed

Thanksgiving and the holiday season that follows represents an opportunity to count our blessings and have an attitude of gratitude. But for people experiencing difficult life circumstances and symptoms of depression, this can be a challenge.

What is the ‘D’ in DBT?

What is the ‘D’ in DBT?

The letter “D” in DBT stands for the word dialectics. In DBT we define dialectics as the synthesis or integration of two opposites with the goal of finding the truth somewhere in between. Dialectical thinking refers to “the ability to view...

Resizing Your Holiday Expectations While Grieving

Resizing Your Holiday Expectations While Grieving

At the holidays, those who are grieving often need a relief from the expectations of the holidays and the permission to be sad.

Anxiety and Depression: Your Cope Ahead Plan for the Holidays

Anxiety and Depression: Your Cope Ahead Plan for the Holidays

What do you get when you struggle with anxiety and/or depression and combine lots of family time during the holidays, too much entertaining and a dozen cookies? The opportunity to make a Christmas Cope Ahead plan to help you take control of your...

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