Our Story...

WellSort (formerly Balanced Card Sorts) was founded when career and mental health counselor, Anush Hansen, noticed her counseling clients struggling to articulate what specific factors in their careers and personal lives were leading to their stress, anxiety, burnout, and lack of balance.

While many clients expressed their need for better work-life balance, it became clear that “balance” means very different things to different people, depending on their professional and personal priorities, values, responsibilities, and circumstances.

The Work-Life Balance Assessment came to life in 2020 when work and life as we knew it came to a screeching halt due to Covid-19. In a time where the world of work, family, health, and balance had been completely flipped on its head, it seemed there was no better time to dive into creating a tool to help as many people as possible sort out what they want and need to feel happy, healthy, fulfilled, and more balanced.

Anush set out to create a simple and holistic resource, grounded in the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, to help people clarify and untangle these factors, identify their career and life priorities, and develop goals and a concrete plan for improving how they feel and function in their day-to-day lives. This is where the inspiration for our first card sort tool, the Work-Life Balance Assessment, originated.

With the help of a committed team, WellSort has since developed two additional card sort tools:

• the Student Wellness Card Sort, which helps adolescents and young adults identify their priorities, needs, and goals when it comes to their mental health and wellbeing, and

• the Career Values Card Sort, which helps students and employees identify what’s most important to them when they think about their future career and work-life balance.

Meet Our Team

The WellSort team is passionately dedicated to sharing our tools with students and employees to help them clarify, communicate and build what they want and need into their lives to find better work-life balance, health, and wellbeing.  

Anush Hansen, Founder & Chief Product Officer

Hi there! I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Career Counselor, former epidemiologist and public health researcher, and Founder of WellSort (formerly Balanced Card Sorts). I'll be the first to admit that I have a near-obsession with connecting people to resources that allow them to lead healthy, happy, fulfilling lives.

I own a holistic career and wellness counseling practice in Kennebunk, Maine where I support clients in finding meaningful, fulfilling work that also allows them to take care of themselves and pay attention to the other parts of their lives that matter most to them. 

Prior to opening my private counseling practice in 2019, I worked for nearly 20 years in higher education, first as a public health and health promotion researcher at the University of Vermont and the University of Southern Maine, and later as a mental health counselor and wellness educator at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and the University of New Hampshire.

I hold a Master's in Public Health and a Master's in Counseling Psychology. The combination of my training and experience in mental health counseling, wellness education, career development, health promotion, and public health is what fuels my commitment to using a holistic, wellness-centered approach with clients, and helped to shape the development of the WellSort platform. 

I live in in Maine with my husband, two children, a very energetic chocolate lab/Aussie mix, and two extremely fluffy cats. Outside of doing work that I love with colleagues I genuinely adore, I enjoy exploring Maine with my family, taking advantage of our beautiful local beaches, "gardening" (mostly just moving plants around until they're happy), getting cozy in front of the woodstove with a great book, and perfecting my favorite home-made soup and pizza recipes.

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Tim Seavey, Co-Founder & CEO

Hello! I couldn’t be more excited to lead the WellSort team, alongside Anush, in bringing our meaningful, practical solutions to thousands of students, employees, and others who want to "sort out what matters most" to them in school, work, and life. People of all ages and backgrounds have had it pretty hard in recent years, struggling to take care of their mental health and wellbeing, so it’s a special privilege for all of us at WellSort to help in such an important way.  

My interest in people, mental health, and wellbeing started as a psychology student in college. It further evolved through my career in employee benefits, where I've developed a passion for bringing real solutions to life's challenges - helping people recover, cope, and find new direction when it's needed most. I've been lucky enough to live and work in several countries, experiencing fascinating diversity in business practices and cultural norms, but also affirming my belief that at our core, we're more similar than we are different…we all want to be healthy and happy. Since leaving my corporate career, I've been having fun growing some small companies and startups with people I really like in the areas of disability management and technology, and serving on several non-profit boards.

I grew up in VT, a small state with an outsized impact on how people think about the world around them.  But, Maine has been our home-base for most of the last 30 years and we love it here. I live with my artist wife, two college-aged daughters, and several pets in Portland, and when we're not coordinating transportation to school and summer jobs, you'll likely find us outside walking, skiing, and visiting local breweries. Cheers!

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Chris Wells, Web Developer

I am a co-founder at Redfin Solutions, a trusted team of Drupal experts based in Portland, Maine. We conceive, build, and support custom enterprise websites, making sure the solutions we deliver exceed expectations, with clients including Dartmouth College, Phillips Exeter Academy, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, MaineHealth, and MIT.

I oversee the development and maintenance of WellSort digital card sort tools, ensuring a reliable and user-friendly experience for users.

I give back to the Drupal community by contributing to Drupal core, maintaining Drupal contrib modules, speaking at Drupal camps, and mentoring other Drupal professionals.

When I'm not working, I have three little ones that keep me plenty busy!

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Rhonda Senger, Sales Consultant

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Nathaan Demers, Higher Ed & Digital Behavioral Health

I am a clinical psychologist with experience in a variety of clinical settings including community mental health, therapeutic boarding schools, integrated primary care, and most notably college counseling. In addition to my clinical work, I've implemented a variety of programs at the state/regional/national level, and completed my dissertation on the construct of “maturity” with adolescent and young adult populations.

For the past decade, I have been a thought leader, national speaker, and innovator in the digital behavioral health space, specifically researching and developing holistic behavioral health interventions for institutions of higher education. Currently, I am Principal Investor at Hopelab, a transformative social innovation lab and impact investor working to support the mental well-being of adolescents ages 10-25, especially BIPOC and LGBTQ+ young people. 

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Kristin Ryan, Student Affairs

As my CliftonStrengths assessment so accurately describes: I am a “developer” passionate about recognizing and cultivating potential in others. I honed this skill during my 20 years as an administrator at an all-girls boarding school, where I created leadership programming to give girls the opportunity to articulate and refine their values and goals, and to understand and own their leadership strengths as they worked on building a strong sense of self.

In 2021, I transitioned to the nonprofit sector - and Maine! - where I am dedicated to coaching mentors: helping them to notice, appreciate, and reflect back students' strengths and capabilities, to affirm and reinforce their confidence and healthy self perception. I love creating and cultivating authentic connections - especially when collaborating with other caring, compassionate humans. I am also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach: Developer ▪ Individualization ▪ Arranger ▪ Adaptability ▪ Maximizer. 

In my spare time, I love exploring all things Maine (restaurants, running/hiking trails, the local art and “maker” scenes), long walks listening to podcasts (Brene Brown, Jemele Hill, Angela Duckworth, true crime…), and nerding out over fonts, hand lettering, and graphic design.

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Whit Ford, SCORE Business Advisor

I have been a SCORE Mentor since 2017, after working in Strategic Planning, Financial Oversight, Industrial Marketing, Software Development/Sales/Support, Adult/Secondary Education, and 25 years as a Maine small business owner. My undergraduate degree was in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science, and my graduate degree in Marketing/Finance. 

Other interests include playing Irish Traditional and English Country Dance music on flute or whistle, serving on non-profit Boards, helping local high school students with math questions, judging VEX Robotics tournaments, and conversing with friends in France to help each other improve our foreign language skills. 

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