About Nancy
Nancy Bodnar uses a client-centered approach to guide people through hard moments. She listens carefully and helps each person set clear, manageable goals. Nancy draws on 18 years of clinical experience as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker to support practical change.
Nancy earned a Master of Social Work from Hunter College in 2002 and holds an LCSW in New Jersey. She has worked in both independent practice and outpatient hospital settings.
How Nancy works
Her background includes school social work and volunteer work with community services. Her work focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and coping with life changes. She also helps with relationship issues, parenting concerns, intimacy-related problems, and challenges tied to sexual orientation.
Additional areas she addresses include addiction, ADHD, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Nancy blends approaches depending on the situation. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and practice new behaviors.
She uses psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that developed over time. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used to build coping skills and short-term strategies. In sessions she aims for a straightforward, collaborative style.
Conversations include problem clarification, skill practice, and realistic steps clients can try between sessions. Nancy encourages people to notice small progress and to adjust plans as needed.
Nancy lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Nancy works with
The areas below are the ones Nancy selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building the relationship so people feel heard and understood; it helps with stress, relationship problems, and self-esteem by centering the individual's goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors to find practical changes; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Nancy treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit each person's needs. Sessions can shift over time so clients get the mix of strategies that works best for them.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when a longer session or visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates and work through small steps between sessions. These formats make scheduling more flexible and help therapy fit into everyday life.
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