Before he settled in Cincinnati, Dr. Hansen’s education took him across the country several times starting with a stop at Lake Forest College in Illinois, where his BA thesis titled “A Principled Approach to Negotiation” earned Special Honors. From there, he earned a master's degree in Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Fresno, completed a pre-doctoral internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in Hartford Connecticut, and then returned to Fresno to complete his Ph.D. After which, he did a yearlong post-doctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanante Medical Center in Santa Rosa, California. Dr. Hansen has been in Cincinnati since 1998, practicing at both the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s.