Carrie L. Hanson-Bradley

Carrie L. Hanson-Bradley is an associate professor of practice in child, youth, and family studies at the University of Nebraska--Lincoln. Her primary areas of interest and scholarly activity focus on individual, family, and community-based interventions for those impacted by stress, crisis, and trauma; increasing student learning outcomes through relationships; and expanding access to evidence-based trauma interventions for underserved populations.

Hanson-Bradley’s approach to teaching is systemic. She strongly believes that her job is to help students develop rich, overlapping relationships: 1) relationships with course content; 2) relationships with personal and professional futures; 3) relationships with community. With these relationships in mind, she works to create a class culture that disseminates course content in relevant and impactful ways, assesses learning through multifaceted assessments, encourages critical and creative thinking, and creates a class environment that promotes interpersonal relationships.

Hanson-Bradley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in treating individuals, couples, and families affected by grief, loss, illness, and trauma.  She has advanced training in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) and travels the country training student and community clinicians in Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET). She has clinical experience working in hospital ICUs and ERs, community-based crisis centers, and in private practice. She is a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family therapy (AAMFT) and an AAMFT Supervisor Candidate.

Ph.D. in Family Social Science with an emphasis in Couple and Family Therapy, University of Minnesota, 2015
M.S. in Family Studies with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, University of Kentucky, 2007
B.A. in English, Brigham Young University, 2004